False cleanerfish

Adults are found solitary or in small groups in lagoons, subtidal reef flats and outer reef slopes (where it occurs to depths of over 20 m). Often in pairs in empty worm tubes or narrow holes.

Also known as: cleaner mimic, mimic blenny, mimic blenny, threadfin blenny, false cleaner, striped blenny, false cleaner fish, cleaner mimic, mimic blenny, cleaner mimic blenny, false cleaner, false cleaner fish

Look for bears an amazing resemblance to the cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus. Distinguished from L. dimidiatus by the position of its mouth, which is terminal in the wrasse but under the snout in the blenny.

Adults are found solitary or in small groups in lagoons, subtidal reef flats and outer reef slopes (where it occurs to depths of over 20 m).

Adults are found solitary or in small groups in lagoons, subtidal reef flats and outer reef slopes (where it occurs to depths of over 20 m).

They even copy the motion of the cleaner wrasse that may induce other fish to come close, then target their scales or mucus for a feed, biting and quickly retreating to the corals before the victim realizes that it was t

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  Bicolor Blenny

  Ecsenius bicolor

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  Leopard blenny

  Exallias brevis

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  Molly Miller

  Scartella cristata

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  Montagu's Blenny

  Coryphoblennius galerita

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  Panamic Fanged Blenny

  Ophioblennius steindachneri

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  Peacock Blenny

  Salaria pavo