Dascyllus
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| Dascyllus | |
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| Dascyllus melanurus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Pomacentridae |
| Genus: | Dascyllus Cuvier, 1829 |
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Dascyllus is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae. They are usually commensals with corals.[1]
Species include:[2]
- Dascyllus albisella (Gill, 1862) - Hawaiian dascyllus
- Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758) - whitetail dascyllus
- Dascyllus auripinnis (Randall and Randall, 2001)
- Dascyllus carneus (Fischer, 1885) - cloudy dascyllus
- Dascyllus flavicaudus (Randall and Allen, 1977) - yellowtail dascyllus
- Dascyllus marginatus (Rüppell, 1829) - marginate dascyllus
- Dascyllus melanurus (Bleeker, 1854) - blacktail humbug
- Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846) - reticulate dascyllus
- Dascyllus strasburgi (Klausewitz, 1960) - Strasburg's dascyllus
- Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829) - threespot dascyllus
Trivia
Deb, a character in the animated film Finding Nemo, is a damselfish of genus Dascyllus.[3]
References
- ↑ Stevenson, R. A. (1963). "Behavior of the pomacentrid reef fish Dascyllus albisella gill in relation to the anemone Marcanthia cookei". Copeia 1963 (4): 612–4. doi:10.2307/1440960. JSTOR 1440960.
- ↑ Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Dascyllus. FishBase. 2013.
- ↑ Kirkeby, C. What Kind of Creature Is It? Finding Nemo - Cast of Characters. ClassBrain.com May 22, 2004.
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