Sabre-toothed blenny
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Sabre-toothed blenny | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Osteichthyes | ordo = Perciformes | familia = Blenniidae | genus = Aspidontus | species = A. taeniatus | binomial = Aspidontus taeniatus | binomial_authority = Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 }}
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 over to be cleaned. Instead of eating parasites off 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.
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