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.
[edit] Species
- Dascyllus albisella (Gill, 1862)
- Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Dascyllus auropinnis (Randall and Randall, 2001)
- Dascyllus carneus (Fischer, 1885)
- Dascyllus flavicaudus (Randall and Allen, 1977)
- Dascyllus marginatus (Rüppell, 1829)
- Dascyllus melanurus 'Four-stripe damselfish' (Bleeker, 1854)
- Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846)
- Dascyllus strasburgi (Klausewitz, 1960)
- Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829)
[edit] Trivia
Deb, a Black and White Humbug in the film Finding Nemo, is a four-stripe damselfish (Dascyllus melanurus).[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "What Kind of Creature Is It? Finding Nemo - Cast of Characters", Cynthia Kirkeby, Class Brain, May 22, 2004
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Dascyllus in FishBase. January 2006 version.
