WoRMS taxon details
Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801)
AphiaID: 159289
AphiaID: 159289
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Pomacentrinae (Subfamily) > Abudefduf (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Abudefduf Forskål, 1775 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Abudefduf coelestinus (Cuvier, 1830) Glyphisodon coelestinus Cuvier, 1830 Labrus sexfasciatus Lacepède, 1801 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [details] basis of record: Smith, J.L.B. (1960). Coral Fishes of the Family Pomacentridae from the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin No. 19: 317-349 [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (34 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 31 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
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: nektonic [details] Habitat: Inhabits inshore and offshore coral or rocky reefs. [details] Importance: Social- Commercial, aquariumfish [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159289 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159289 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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