ID this fish please - should be easy

[TekMuzik]

Hello. I was at my LFS yesterday and talking to an employee about a good fish to add to my tank, since I'm pretty new at the hobby and open to advice.
So he recommended this one they just got in, and I had him bag it up and took it home. Realized after I got home, I never caught the name of it. If you can't ID it I'll have to go back and see if he remembers what he sold me, but it should be pretty easy since it's nothing fancy. Thank you.

PS. Sorry about the poor quality. It's a shot off a webcam.

 

[Brookster123]

Freshy guesses a sea cardinal or something along those lines..

 

[bribo12]

It is a type of blenny. A striped blenny (Meiacanthus grammistes)

 

[TekMuzik]

Thanks Bribo12. Looking at clearer pictures online it is definitely a striped blenny! Which is awesome cause I've been saying for a while I want a venomous fish, and now I picked one up without even realizing it!

 

[bribo12]

Very nice fish

 

[jwh0818]

So if he bites you, your poisoned? Or what!? I'm curious to know how he Is venomous

 

[Tony Gill]

Meiacanthus species belong to group of blennies known as the sabre-tooth blennies (tribe Nemophini). They are named for the large, curved canine teeth in the rear part of their lower jaw, which they use in defence and intraspecific fighting. All of them can deliver nasty bites (I've been bitten a few times when handling Petroscirtes species - deep cuts that bled for quite a while.) Uniquely among sabre-tooths, the canines are grooved and associated with venom glands in species of Meiacanthus. Predatory fish learn to avoid Meiacanthus, and certain other species have evolved to take advantage of this by adopting similar coloration to the Meiacanthus species. Among the mimics are other blennies (including other sabre-tooths), cardinalfishes and monocle breams. Meiacanthus grammistes is mimicked by another sabre-tooth, Petroscirtes breviceps.