damselfishes

dam·sel·fish (d

l-f

)

n. pl. damselfish or dam·sel·fish·es

Any of various small tropical marine fishes of the family Pomacentridae, having laterally compressed, usually brightly colored bodies. Also called demoiselle.

damselfish [ˈdæmz^əlˌfɪʃ]

n pl -fish, -fishes

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small tropical percoid fish of the family Pomacentridae, having a brightly coloured deep compressed body See also anemone fish

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Noun

damselfish - small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs

demoiselle

percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

family Pomacentridae, Pomacentridae - damselfishes

beaugregory, Pomacentrus leucostictus - a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies

anemone fish - live associated with sea anemones

Abudefduf saxatilis, sergeant major - large blue-grey black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide

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Abudefduf
Abudefduf saxatilis
Amphiprion
anemone fish
beaugregory
demoiselle
family Pomacentridae
Fish
Garibaldi
genus Abudefduf
genus Amphiprion
genus Pomacentrus
order Perciformes
order Percomorphi
Perciformes
percoid
percoid fish
percoidean
Percomorphi

Obviously an almost 80-percent reduction in grunts, wrasses, damselfishes, parrot fishes, snappers, groupers and other reef dwellers poses a serious trophic (foodweb) threats, as well as threats to essential fish habitats like coral reefs.

Eat the invaders: what to do about lionfish, iguanas and other ... by Gibson, Terry / Florida Sportsman

It is unusual among marine reef fishes and unique among damselfishes in that it lacks a dispersive planktonic larval stage (Robertson, 1973).

Patterns of growth, mortality, and size of the tropical damselfish ... by Kingsford, Michael J.; Hughes, Julian M. / Fishery Bulletin

2001) also found that temperature did not appear to be a causal factor driving spatial differences in demography of damselfishes in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean.

Scales of spatial variation in demography of a large coral-reef ... by Williams, Ashley J.; Davies, Campbell R.; Mapstone, Bruce D.; Russ, Garry R. / Fishery Bulletin

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