DON'T EAT DORY.HE HAS POISONOUS FLESH. EATING IT MAY CAUSE CIGUATERA

As we’ve previously mentioned, most people wouldn’t recognize a blue tang by name alone.

Instead, they would recognize the fish from its on-screen counterpart, Dory, the lovable yet slightly hopeless companion to Marlin in the hit 2003 animated film Finding Nemo.

While Dory herself suffered from short-term memory loss, the blue tang itself doesn’t, as far as we know.

Dory was loved so much, and such an integral part of the Finding Nemo story that a sequel was released in 2016 called Finding Dory, in which Dory becomes the central charact