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Pomacentridae
Brazilian damsel
Stegastes fuscus
Blue rims frame both juvenile eyespots
- Brown
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Small
- Tropical fish
Brown
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
SmallBrazilian damsel is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in reef habitat.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Blennies and Allies
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Stegastes
- Maximum length
- 12.6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Brazil. Some authors consider the population in Caribbean Sea as another species, Pomacentrus dorsopunicans (Ref. 9626 ). Reported in the eastern Atlantic off Senegal (Ref. 10797 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
