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| ⚫ | The '''''sabre-toothed blenny''''', ''Aspidontus taeniatus'', is a species of [[blenny]] that imitates the "dance" of a similarly colored [[species]] of cleaner wrasse. It tricks [[fish]] into offering their underparts to be cleaned. Instead of eating [[parasite]]s from the [[scale (zoology)|scale]]s of the fish, the sabre-toothed blenny bites the victim and rushes away. |
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| ⚫ | The '''sabre-toothed blenny''', ''Aspidontus taeniatus'', is a species of [[blenny]] that imitates the "dance" of a similarly colored [[species]] of cleaner wrasse. It tricks [[fish]] into offering their underparts |
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The sabre-toothed blenny, Aspidontus taeniatus, is a species of blenny that imitates the "dance" of 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.
It is indigenous to coral reef habitats in the Indian Ocean.
References
- "Aspidontus taeniatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 24 January.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2005). "Aspidontus taeniatus" in FishBase. 10 2005 version.
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