What is that?

Hi all,

Do anyone know what are the fishes and also what is it sitting on?

Thanks

Regards

KL Kwang

I dunno the species, but you quite often get these blennies sitting on bryozoans and weeds growing on the mooring lines above divesites in the Indian Ocean/SE Asia.

Alex

That is a Variable Fangblenny, Petroscirtes variabilis. They are the type of blenny that likes to take a bite out of passing fish.

And as Alex says quite common on mooring lines around here.

Not sure about the stuff they are sitting in.

Here are a couple on a mooring line:

The blennies are living in a bryozoan. Identification of bryos depends on microscopic features so it would take a specialist and a specimen to get a name for it.