Sabre-toothed blenny
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Sabre-toothed blenny
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Aspidontus
Species: A. taeniatus
Binomial name
Aspidontus taeniatus
Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

The sabre-toothed blenny, Aspidontus taeniatus, is a species of blenny that mimics the "dance" of Labroides dimidiatus; a similarly colored species of cleaner wrasse. It tricks fish into offering their underparts to be cleaned. Instead of eating parasites from the scales of the fish, the sabre-toothed blenny bites the victim and rushes away. Fish that have already been bitten might attack other blenny trying to bite them. Another species of sabre-toothed blenny Plagiotremus azaleus has a different coloration.

It is indigenous to coral reef habitats in the Indo-Pacific.

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