Dascyllus

Dascyllus

Dascyllus melanurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Pomacentridae
Genus:	Dascyllus Cuvier, 1829
Species
See text.

Dascyllus is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.

Species

Dascyllus albisella (Gill, 1862)
Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Dascyllus auropinnis (Randall and Randall, 2001)
Dascyllus carneus (Fischer, 1885)
Dascyllus flavicaudus (Randall and Allen, 1977)
Dascyllus marginatus (Rüppell, 1829)
Dascyllus melanurus 'Four-stripe damselfish' (Bleeker, 1854)
Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846)
Dascyllus strasburgi (Klausewitz, 1960)
Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829)

Trivia

Deb, a Black and White Humbug in the film Finding Nemo, is a four-stripe damselfish (Dascyllus melanurus).^[1]

References

^ "What Kind of Creature Is It? Finding Nemo - Cast of Characters", Cynthia Kirkeby, Class Brain, May 22, 2004

Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Dascyllus in FishBase. January 2006 version.