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Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 212843

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Pomacentrinae (Subfamily) > Dascyllus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Dascyllus Cuvier, 1829
Parent Dascyllus Cuvier, 1829
Synonymised
taxa		  Abudefduf caroli Curtiss, 1938
 Chaetodon arcuanus Gmelin, 1789
 Chaetodon aruanus Linnaeus, 1758
 Dascyllus arnanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
 Dascyllus blochii Castelnau, 1875
 Pomacentrus devisi Jordan & Seale, 1906
 Pomacentrus emamo Lesson, 1831
 Pomacentrus trifasciatus De Vis, 1884
 Tetradrachmum arcuatum Cantor, 1850
 Tetradrachmum aruanum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [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]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English banded dascyllus  [details]
English whitetail dascyllus  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Chagos [details]
Djibouti [details]
East Africa [details]
Eritrea [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (27 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (115 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 80 proteins)
To ITIS
Note  Description: Territorial, inhabits shallow lagoon and subtidal reef flats. Forms large aggregations above staghorn @Acropora@ thickets or in smaller groups above isolated coral heads. Feeds on zooplankton, benthic invertebrates, and algae. Males invite females to spawn in their nests; protecting the eggs until they hatch and becoming very aggressive against other fish. Eggs hatch after 3-5 days; pelagic larvae feeds on plankton (Ref. 5503). [details]
Image 
Dascyllus aruanus
Dascyllus aruanus
added on 2010-02-17 - author: Collection VLIZ ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212843
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-06-17 06:27:10Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=212843 on 2013-05-26
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