''Plagiotremus flavus'' is a species of
combtooth blenny
Combtooth blennies are blenny, blenniiformids; Percomorpha, percomorph marine fish of the family Blenniidae, part of the Order (biology), order Blenniiformes. They are the largest family of blennies with around 401 known species in 58 genera. Com ...
found in
Fiji
Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
and
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...
in the western central Pacific Ocean.
It is found at depths of up to and is associated with reefs. This species attacks other fish to feed on their mucus and scales. In Fiji, ''P. flavus'' is a
Batesian mimic of ''
Meiacanthus oualanensis'', while in Tonga, it mimics ''
Meiacanthus tongaensis''.
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Fish described in 1976
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