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にせくろすじぎん 偽黒筋銀宝
Noun
1. sabre-toothed blenny (Aspidontus taeniatus)Usually written using kana alone
Wikipedia definition
2. Sabre-toothed blennyThe 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 in a mutualistic cleaning symbiosis, the sabre-toothed blenny bites the victim and rushes away. Fish that have in the past been victimised in that way might attack other blennies innocently trying to groom them.
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