Abudefduf

Abudefduf
Abudefduf sordidus Hawaii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pomacentridae
Subfamily: Pomacentrinae
Genus: Abudefduf
Forsskål, 1775
Type species
Chaetodon sordidus
Forsskål, 1775

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

The name is from the Arabic words abu ("the one with") and def ("side"), with the plural ending -duf. The name thus means "the one with prominent sides".

General biology

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

Species

The following 21 species are recognized in the genus Abudefduf:

References

  1. ↑ Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (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. Bibcode:2013ANat..181...94F. 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. Bibcode:2018PeerJ...6e5357C. 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. ↑ "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.