WoRMS taxon details

Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801)

159289  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159289)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Labrus sexfasciatus Lacepède, 1801) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34.
page(s): 430, 477, Pl. 19 (fig. 2) [details]   
Description Inhabits inshore and offshore coral or rocky reefs. Feeds on zooplankton and algae and aggregates high in the water coloumn.  
Description Inhabits inshore and offshore coral or rocky reefs. Feeds on zooplankton and algae and aggregates high in the water coloumn. [details]

Distribution Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to Pinda, Mozambique, eastward to Tuamotu Is., north to southern Japan, south to Lord Howe and Rapa...  
Distribution Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to Pinda, Mozambique, eastward to Tuamotu Is., north to southern Japan, south to Lord Howe and Rapa Is.; throughout Micronesia; not recorded from the Hawaiian Islands [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159289 on 2024-03-19
Date
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2005-05-27 09:47:05Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Glyphisodon coelestinus Cuvier, 1830) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1830). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome cinquième. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. v. 5: i-xxviii + 1-499 + 4 pp., Pls. 100-140. [Cuvier authored volume. i-xx + 1-374 in Strasbourg edition.].
page(s): 464, Pl. 135 [details]   

original description  (of Labrus sexfasciatus Lacepède, 1801) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34.
page(s): 430, 477, Pl. 19 (fig. 2) [details]   

context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]   

basis of record Randall, J. E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. <em>Immel Publishing.</em>  [details]   

additional source Smith, J. L. B. (1960). Coral Fishes of the Family Pomacentridae from the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin No.</em> 19: 317-349. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal Greek part of the Aegean Sea (Marine Region) Individual release: accidental release by individuals [details]

From other sources
Description Inhabits inshore and offshore coral or rocky reefs. Feeds on zooplankton and algae and aggregates high in the water coloumn. [details]

Diet Feeds on zooplankton and algae and aggregates high in the water column [details]

Distribution Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to Pinda, Mozambique, eastward to Tuamotu Is., north to southern Japan, south to Lord Howe and Rapa Is.; throughout Micronesia; not recorded from the Hawaiian Islands [details]

Habitat Inhabits inshore and offshore coral or rocky reefs. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Importance Social- Commercial, aquariumfish [details]
LanguageName 
English scissortail sergeant  [details]
Japanese ロクセンスズメダイ  [details]