Abudefduf


Abudefduf, also known as the sergeant-majors, is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.

Abudefduf
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Abudefduf sordidus Hawaii
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pomacentridae
Subfamily: Pomacentrinae
Genus: Abudefduf
Forsskål, 1775
Type species
Chaetodon sordidus
Forsskål, 1775[1]

The name is from Arabic abu, "the one with"; and def, "side", and the plural ending -duf. The name thus means "the one with prominent sides".[2]

General biology

The approximately 20 species of Abudefduf may be divided into planktivores (plankton eaters) and benthivores (shellfish eaters) and three broadly tropical living clades (groups).[3][4][5] Two of the Abudefduf clades are primarily benthivorous and a third clade is composed of planktivores and is the most species-rich. Most diversification (dfferent classes) has occurred in the last 10 million years within this genus across all clades.[6][7]

Species

The following 21 species are recognized in the genus Abudefduf:[8]

Gallery

References

  1. 'Abudefduf'. Catalog of FishesCalifornia Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  2. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  3. Hensley (1978). Revision of the Indo-West Pacific species of Abudefduf (Pisces: Pomacentridae). University of South Florida. 
  4. Aguilar-Medrano, Rosalía. Ecomorphological diversification in reef fish of the genus Abudefduf (Percifomes, Pomacentridae) (in en). Zoomorphology 135 (1) (2015-12-17). p. 103–114. doi:10.1007/s00435-015-0291-6.
  5. Frédérich, Bruno. Iterative Ecological Radiation and Convergence during the Evolutionary History of Damselfishes (Pomacentridae) (in en). The American Naturalist 181 (1) (January 2013). p. 94–113. doi:10.1086/668599.
  6. Campbell, Matthew A.. Multilocus molecular systematics of the circumtropical reef-fish genus Abudefduf (Pomacentridae): history, geography and ecology of speciation (in en). PeerJ 6 (2018-08-14). p. e5357. doi:10.7717/peerj.5357.
  7. Youtube <<Advance Marine Aquarium>> Creatures section, Damselfish - Author:Sublanding Fish[2020-06-19]
  8. "Abudefduf". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2022 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2022.
  9. Wibowo, Kunto & Toda, Minoru & Motomura, Hiroyuki. (2017). Validity of Abudefduf caudobimaculatus Okada and Ikeda 1939 and synonymies of Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard 1825) (Perciformes: Pomacentridae). Ichthyological Research. 65. 10.1007/s10228-017-0594-3.

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