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Created 5/18/2019

Family Pomacentridae

INDO-PACIFIC

Stegastes punctatus

 

 

Palau, 6 feet
 

BLUNTSNOUT GREGORY

Common in Acropora thickets in lagoons where it farms filamentous algae.  Robust, gray-brown, with a large black spot on base of the soft dorsal fin.  Attains 6 inches.  Red Sea to French Polynesia, excluding Hawai'i.