WoRMS taxon details
Stegastes nigricans (Lacepède, 1802)
AphiaID: 218849
AphiaID: 218849
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Pomacentrinae (Subfamily) > Stegastes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Stegastes Jenyns, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Abudefduf tamaii Aoyagi, 1941 Abudefduf tsamaii Aoyagi, 1941 (misspelling) Eupomacentrus nigricans (Lacepède, 1802) Holocentrus nigricans Lacepède, 1802 Parapomacentrus nigricans (Lacepède, 1802) Pomacentrus nigricans (Lacepède, 1802) Pomacentrus scolopseus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 Pomacentrus scolopsis Günther, 1862 Pomacentrus subniger De Vis, 1885 Pomacentrus taeniops Cuvier, 1830 Segastes nigricans (Lacepède, 1802) (misspelling) | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (32 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (69 nucleotides; 19 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: A schooling and territorial species which inhabits reef flats and lagoon reefs. Frequently occurs in colonies associated with live or dead branching staghorn coral (@Acropora@). Feeds on algae, gastropods, sponges, and copepods. They attack human intruders without hesitation, sometimes taking painful nips. Particularly aggressive during reproductive periods. The species emit clicking noises during aggressive encounters. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218849 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Stegastes nigricans (Lacepède, 1802). 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=218849 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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