Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Pomacentridae > Dascyllus > Dascyllus trimaculatus

Dascyllus trimaculatus (threespot humbug; White-spot puller; Whitespot humbug; Three-spot humbug; Three-spot dascyllus; Threespot dascyllus; Three-spot damselfish; Threespot damselfish; Three spot dascyllus; Three-spot damsel; Three spot damselfish; Three spot damsel; Domino damselfish; Domino; Damselfish; Dominó; Damsel fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The threespot dascyllus (Dascyllus trimaculatus), also known as the domino damsel or simply domino, is a species of damselfish from the family Pomacentridae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and East Africa, to the Pitcairn Islands, southern Japan, and Australia. Its grey to black body has two lateral white spots and one between the eyes; the threespot dascyllus' grows up to 13 cm in length. Coloration is somewhat variable; the spot on the forehead may be absent and the lateral spots very much reduced. It feeds on algae, copepods and other planktonic crustaceans.
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Infraspecies

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    
Ranong   Thailand      

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hysterolecitha nahaensis[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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