Abudefduf

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

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

The name is from Arabic ابو دفدوف abu, "the one with"; and def, "side", and the intensive 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 and benthivores and three broadly pantropical clades. ^{[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 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]

• Abudefduf abdominalis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Hawaiian sergeant)
• Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787) (Bengal sergeant)
• Abudefduf caudobimaculatus Okada & Ikeda, 1939 ^[9] (Okinawa sergeant)
• Abudefduf concolor (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Dusky sergeant)
• Abudefduf conformis J. E. Randall & Earle, 1999
• Abudefduf declivifrons (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Mexican nightsergeant)
• Abudefduf hoefleri (Steindachner, 1881) (African sergeant)
• Abudefduf lorenzi Hensley & G. R. Allen, 1977 (Black-tail sergeant)
• Abudefduf margariteus (G. Cuvier, 1830) (Pearly sergeant)
• Abudefduf natalensis Hensley & J. E. Randall, 1983 (Natal sergeant)
• Abudefduf nigrimargo Wibowo, Koeda, Muto & Motomura, 2018 (Black margined-scale sergeant)
• Abudefduf notatus (F. Day, 1870) (Yellowtail sergeant)
• Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sergeant-major)
• Abudefduf septemfasciatus (G. Cuvier, 1830) (Banded sergeant)
• Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacépède, 1801) (Scissortail sergeant)
• Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskål, 1775) (Blackspot sergeant)
• Abudefduf sparoides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (False-eye sergeant)
• Abudefduf taurus (Müller & Troschel, 1848) (Night sergeant)
• Abudefduf troschelii (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Panamic sergeant-major)
• Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Indo-Pacific sergeant)
• Abudefduf whitleyi G. R. Allen & D. R. Robertson, 1974 (Whitley's sergeant)

Gallery

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  Abudefduf abdominalis
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  Abudefduf bengalensis
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  Abudefduf declivifrons
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  Abudefduf notatus
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  Abudefduf saxatilis
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  Abudefduf septemfasciatus
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  Abudefduf sexfasciatus
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  Abudefduf sordidus
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  Abudefduf sparoides
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  Abudefduf troschelii
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  Abudefduf vaigiensis

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Abudefduf". Catalog of Fishes . California 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) (PhD thesis). University of South Florida.
4. Aguilar-Medrano, Rosalía; Barber, Paul H. (2015-12-17). "Ecomorphological diversification in reef fish of the genus Abudefduf (Percifomes, Pomacentridae)". Zoomorphology. 135 (1): 103–114. doi:10.1007/s00435-015-0291-6. ISSN   0720-213X. S2CID   18841806.
5. Frédérich, Bruno; Sorenson, Laurie; Santini, Francesco; Slater, Graham J.; Alfaro, Michael E. (January 2013). "Iterative Ecological Radiation and Convergence during the Evolutionary History of Damselfishes (Pomacentridae)". The American Naturalist. 181 (1): 94–113. doi:10.1086/668599. hdl: 2268/136861 . ISSN   0003-0147. PMID   23234848. S2CID   38968103.
6. Campbell, Matthew A.; Robertson, D. Ross; Vargas, Marta I.; Allen, Gerald R.; McMillan, W.O. (2018-08-14). "Multilocus molecular systematics of the circumtropical reef-fish genus Abudefduf (Pomacentridae): history, geography and ecology of speciation". PeerJ. 6: e5357. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5357 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   6097498 . PMID   30128183.
7. Youtube <<Advance Marine Aquarium>> Creatures section, Damselfish - Author:Sublanding Fish[2020-06-19]
8. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Abudefduf". FishBase . October 2022 version.
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.