Abudefduf
Appearance
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Abudefduf sordidus Hawaii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Family: | Pomacentridae |
Subfamily: | Pomacentrinae |
Genus: | Abudefduf Forsskål, 1775 |
Type species | |
Chaetodon sordidus Forsskål, 1775[1]
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Abudefduf also known as the sergeant-majors is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.
The name is from Arabic abu, "the one with"; and def, "side", and the intensive plural ending -duf. The name thus means "the one with prominent sides".[2]
General biology
The approximately 20 species of Abudefduf may be divided into planktivores and benthivores and three broadly pantropical clades.[3][4][5] Two of the Abudefduf clades are primarily benthivorous and a third clade is composed of planktivores and is the most species-rich. Most diversification has occurred in the last 10 million years within this genus across all clades.[6][7]
Species
The following 20 species are recognized in the genus Abudefduf:[8]
- Abudefduf abdominalis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Green damselfish)
- Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787) (Bengal sergeant)
- Abudefduf concolor (T. N. Gill, 1862)
- Abudefduf conformis J. E. Randall & Earle, 1999
- Abudefduf declivifrons (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Mexican nightsergeant)
- Abudefduf hoefleri (Steindachner, 1881) (African sergeant)
- Abudefduf lorenzi Hensley & G. R. Allen, 1977 (Black-tail sergeant)
- Abudefduf margariteus (G. Cuvier, 1830) (Pearly sergeant)
- Abudefduf natalensis Hensley & J. E. Randall, 1983 (Natal sergeant)
- Abudefduf nigrimargo Wibowo, Koeda, Muto & Motomura, 2018 (Black margined-scale sergeant)
- Abudefduf notatus (F. Day, 1870) (Yellowtail sergeant)
- Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sergeant-major)
- Abudefduf septemfasciatus (G. Cuvier, 1830) (Banded sergeant)
- Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacépède, 1801) (Scissortail sergeant)
- Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskål, 1775) (Blackspot sergeant)
- Abudefduf sparoides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (False-eye sergeant)
- Abudefduf taurus (Müller & Troschel, 1848) (Night sergeant)
- Abudefduf troschelii (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Panamic sergeant-major)
- Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Indo-Pacific sergeant)
- Abudefduf whitleyi G. R. Allen & D. R. Robertson, 1974 (Whitley's sergeant)
Gallery
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Abudefduf sparoides
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Abudefduf". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature". Retrieved March 1, 2018.
- ^ Hensley (1978). Revision of the Indo-West Pacific species of Abudefduf (Pisces: Pomacentridae) (PhD thesis). University of South Florida.
- ^ Aguilar-Medrano, Rosalía; Barber, Paul H. (2015-12-17). "Ecomorphological diversification in reef fish of the genus Abudefduf (Percifomes, Pomacentridae)". Zoomorphology. 135 (1): 103–114. doi:10.1007/s00435-015-0291-6. ISSN 0720-213X. S2CID 18841806.
- ^ Frédérich, Bruno; Sorenson, Laurie; Santini, Francesco; Slater, Graham J.; Alfaro, Michael E. (January 2013). "Iterative Ecological Radiation and Convergence during the Evolutionary History of Damselfishes (Pomacentridae)". The American Naturalist. 181 (1): 94–113. doi:10.1086/668599. ISSN 0003-0147. PMID 23234848.
- ^ Campbell, Matthew A.; Robertson, D. Ross; Vargas, Marta I.; Allen, Gerald R.; McMillan, W.O. (2018-08-14). "Multilocus molecular systematics of the circumtropical reef-fish genus Abudefduf (Pomacentridae): history, geography and ecology of speciation". PeerJ. 6: e5357. doi:10.7717/peerj.5357. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6097498. PMID 30128183.
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- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Abudefduf". FishBase. October 2022 version.