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Dascyllus Cuvier, 1829 
AphiaID: 205736

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Pomacentrinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Parent Pomacentrinae
Synonymised
taxa
  Tetradrachmum Cantor, 1849 (synonym)
Sources  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 october 2012 [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Dascyllus albisella Gill, 1862
Species Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Dascyllus auripinnis Randall & Randall, 2001
Species Dascyllus carneus Fischer, 1885
Species Dascyllus flavicaudus Randall & Allen, 1977
Species Dascyllus marginatus (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Dascyllus melanurus Bleeker, 1854
Species Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846)
Species Dascyllus strasburgi Klausewitz, 1960
Species Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829)

Species Dascyllus arnanus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Dascyllus axillaris Smith, 1935 accepted as Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Dascyllus blochii Castelnau, 1875 accepted as Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Dascyllus caudofasciatus Montalban, 1928 accepted as Chromis lepidolepis Bleeker, 1877
Species Dascyllus cyanurus Rüppell, 1838 accepted as Chromis viridis (Cuvier, 1830)
Species Dascyllus edmondsoni Pietschmann, 1934 accepted as Dascyllus albisella Gill, 1862
Species Dascyllus fasciatus Macleay, 1878 accepted as Dischistodus fasciatus (Cuvier, 1830)
Species Dascyllus isharae Schmidt, 1930 accepted as Chromis chrysura (Bliss, 1883)
Species Dascyllus niger Bleeker, 1847 accepted as Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Dascyllus nigripinnis Regan, 1908 accepted as Dascyllus carneus Fischer, 1885
Species Dascyllus polyacanthus Bleeker, 1855 accepted as Acanthochromis polyacanthus (Bleeker, 1855)
Species Dascyllus pomacentroides Kendall & Goldsborough, 1911 accepted as Chromis lepidolepis Bleeker, 1877
Species Dascyllus reticulata (Richardson, 1846) accepted as Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846)
Species Dascyllus reticulates (Richardson, 1846) accepted as Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846)
Species Dascyllus trimaculatum (Rüppell, 1829) accepted as Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Dascyllus unicolor Bennett, 1831 accepted as Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Dascyllus xanthosoma Bleeker, 1851 accepted as Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846)
Species Dascyllus xanthurus Bleeker, 1853 accepted as Neopomacentrus violascens (Bleeker, 1848)
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Note  Remark: Also genus Tetradrachmum in Smith, 1960 <406>. [details]
Image 
Dascyllus aruanus
[image from typetaxon]
Dascyllus aruanus
added on 2010-02-17 - author: Collection VLIZ ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205736
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1998-09-11 12:14:20Z  created  Fondo, Esther
1998-09-14 12:04:56Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2006-07-31 06:57:06Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2013-01-04 15:09:25Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Dascyllus Cuvier, 1829. 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=205736 on 2013-06-19
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