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title: "Bluestriped Fangblenny"
description: "Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos — Vissen. Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos, commonly called the bluestriped fangblenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Ocean."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/bluestriped-fangblenny
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Bluestriped Fangblenny

> Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos — Vissen. Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos, commonly called the bluestriped fangblenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Ocean.

- Scientific name: *Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1551
- Wikidata: [Q578718](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q578718)
- iNaturalist taxon: [196710](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/196710)

## Names

- en: Bluestriped Fangblenny
- de: Blaustreifen-Säbelzahnschleimfisch
- fr: Blennie à bandes bleues

## Countries with the most observations

ID (288), AU (273), NC (137), PH (101), FJ (67), MV (46), MY (33), SB (31), PW (23), CX (19), ZA (16), TZ (15)

## Summary

Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos, commonly called the bluestriped fangblenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Ocean.  This species reaches a length of 12 centimetres (4.7 in) SL. It is also known as the bluestriped blenny, bluestriped sabretooth blenny, blunt-nose blenny, cleaner mimic, tube-worm blenny or the two-stripe blenny. They hide in deserted worm tubes or other small holes.
The fangblenny is a specialised mimic of juvenile bluestreak cleaner wrasse. Those fish serve as cleaners to larger host fish, which attend to have ectoparasites removed. The fangblenny does no…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestriped_fangblenny

## Photo

![Bluestriped Fangblenny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bluestriped-fangblenny/medium.jpg)

Photo: Justin Philbois · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/265815308

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bluestriped-fangblenny?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).