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Created 4/8/2020

Family Pomacentridae

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Stegastes adustus

 

 
   
 

Spanish Harbor Key, FL
 
   

DUSKY DAMSELFISH

Common on weedy reefs in the surge zone.  Ocellus on dorsal fin fades with age, gray with black scale edges, dark spot on caudal peduncle, pectoral base plain; juveniles orange above, black spot on caudal peduncle.  Attains 4 inches.  North Carolina to Venezuela.