Abudefduf
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| Abudefduf | |
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| Sergeant Major near Paraty, Brazil | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Pomacentridae |
| Genus: | Abudefduf Forsskål, 1775 |
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Abudefduf is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.
The name is from Arabic abu literally meaning "father" but in a non literal sense it means "the one with," def meaning "side", and the intensive plural ending -duf. So the name means "the one (fish) with prominent sides".
[edit] Species
- Abudefduf abdominalis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825)
- Abudefduf barffi Curtiss, 1938
- Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787)
- Abudefduf bicolor (Rochebrune, 1880)
- Abudefduf concolor (Gill, 1862)
- Abudefduf conformis Randall and Earle, 1999
- Abudefduf declivifrons (Gill, 1862)
- Abudefduf hoefleri (Steindachner, 1881)
- Abudefduf lorenzi Hensley and Allen, 1977
- Abudefduf luridus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830)
- Abudefduf manikfani Jones and Kumaran, 1970
- Abudefduf margariteus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830)
- Abudefduf natalensis Hensley and Randall, 1983
- Abudefduf notatus (Day, 1870)
- Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sergeant Major)
- Abudefduf septemfasciatus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830)
- Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacépède, 1801)
- Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskål, 1775)
- Abudefduf sparoides (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825)
- Abudefduf taurus (Müller and Troschel in Schomburgk, 1848)
- Abudefduf theresae Curtiss, 1938
- Abudefduf trilineatus Wang, 1941
- Abudefduf troschelii (Gill, 1862)
- Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard), 1825)
- Abudefduf whitleyi Allen and Robertson, 1974
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Abudefduf in FishBase. March 2006 version.
- Mark Isaak (2006). "Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature: Puns". http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxPuns.html. Retrieved 20 March.
