Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Pomacentridae > Dascyllus > Dascyllus aruanus

Dascyllus aruanus (black-and-white damselfish; Zebra humbug; White-tailed footballer; White-tailed damselfish; Whitetail dascyllus; White tailed damselfish; White tailed damsel; Threestripe damselfish; Three-stripe damsel; Humbug dascyllus; Humbug damselfish; Humbug; Damselfish; Common humbug; Black and white damselfish; Banded humbug; Three-striped damsel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Dascyllus aruanus, known commonly as the Whitetail dascyllus or Humbug damselfish among other vernacular names, is a species of marine fish in the family Pomacentridae.
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Infraspecies

Chaetodon abudafar var. abudafar
Dascyllus aruanus var. aruanus
Dascyllus aruanus var. nigrus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    
Ranong   Thailand      

Predators

Cephalopholis hemistiktos (duskyfin grouper)[1]
Cephalopholis miniata (bluespot rockcod)[1]

Consumers

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Food habits and prey selection of three species of groupers from the genus Cephalopholis (Serranidae: Teleostei), Muki Shpigel & Lev Fishelson, Environmental Biology of Fishes Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 67-73, 1989
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0