FB-68964 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68964 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Cichliformes Cichlidae Labeotropheus Labeotropheus simoneae Pauers, 2016 Chaaetodon abu dafur Fabricius, 1775 Chaaetodon abudafur Fabricius, 1775 Dascyllus aruanus (non Linnaeus, 1758) 2019-01-25 2024-01-22 Borsa, P., A. Sembiring, C. Fauvelot and W.-J. Chen0 Resurrection of Indian Ocean humbug damselfish, <i>Dascyllus abudafur</i> (Forsskål) from synonymy with its Pacific Ocean sibling, <i>Dascyllus aruanus</i> (L.). Comptes Rendus Biologies, Elsevier Masson, 337(709-716). (Ref. 119133) FB-DiagnosticDescr-68973 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2019-02-11 00:00:00 2019-02-11 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68973 This species is distinguished by its white pigmentation with three transversal black bands; caudal fin bilobate and with a grey to blackish blotch at the caudal fin (vs. generally entirely white of its Pacific-Ocean sister-species Dascyllus aruanus); differs from D. aruanus by its cytochrome b gene sequence: nucleotide sites nos. 450, 459 and 702 of the gene (diagnostic between the two species) and at these three sites, D. abudafur has the triplet (A, T, T) whereas D. aruanus has (G, C, C) (Ref. 119133). Borsa, P., A. Sembiring, C. Fauvelot and W.-J. Chen 2014 Resurrection of Indian Ocean humbug damselfish, <i>Dascyllus abudafur</i> (Forsskål) from synonymy with its Pacific Ocean sibling, <i>Dascyllus aruanus</i> (L.). Comptes Rendus Biologies, Elsevier Masson, 337(709-716). (Ref. 119133) FB-Distribution-68973 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2019-02-11 00:00:00 2019-02-11 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68973 Indian Ocean: Red Sea to the Sunda Shelf. Borsa, P., A. Sembiring, C. Fauvelot and W.-J. Chen 2014 Resurrection of Indian Ocean humbug damselfish, <i>Dascyllus abudafur</i> (Forsskål) from synonymy with its Pacific Ocean sibling, <i>Dascyllus aruanus</i> (L.). Comptes Rendus Biologies, Elsevier Masson, 337(709-716). (Ref. 119133) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-68973 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2019-02-11 00:00:00 2019-02-11 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68973 reef-associated; marine