Not exact matches
When predators attack,
blennies on Pacific coral reefs bite back
with a venom that makes the attackers so dizzy that they open their mouths to let the prey out
Yet when Casewell, Fry and colleagues put together an evolutionary family tree for the
blennies, the one genus
with both fangs and venom branched off amid four genera that are all fang and no toxins, Casewell, Fry and colleagues report in the April 24 Current Biology.
After a recent flurry of news that fang
blennies mix an opioid in their venom, a question lingers: What do they need
with fangs anyway?
Fang
blennies are small fish
with big teeth.
This can be held in check
with a few fish that are primarily vegetarians, such as tangs, rabbitfish and algae -
blennies.
The reef is covered
with a variety of moray eels, parrot fish,
blennies, crabs and big schools of needle fish.
We started our Monday bubble time off
with a visit to Lighthouse Wall where we saw, Yellowhead Jawfish, Arrow
Blennies, Reef Sharks, Southern Stingrays and Hawksbill Turtles.
Look among the bushy and feather black corals, you can find pike
blenny with their tails cocked, ready to pounce on prey.