Stegastes

Stegastes
Stegastes fuscus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pomacentridae
Subfamily: Pomacentrinae
Genus: Stegastes
Jenyns, 1840[1]
Type species
Stegastes imbricatus
Jenyns, 1840[2]
Synonyms
  • Brachypomacentrus Bleeker, 1877
  • Eupomacentrus Bleeker, 1877
Caribbean Cocoa damselfish (Stegastes xanthurus)

Stegastes, commonly known as Gregories, is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Pomacentridae. Members of this genus are marine coastal fishes except for S. otophorus, which also occurs in brackish water.[3] These fish are known by the names of damselfish, gregory and major. They are small tropical fish associated with coral and rocky reefs in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are sometimes found in the aquarium trade where they are an easy-to-keep fish, but they do not mix well with other fish of their own or other species because of their territorial habits and aggressiveness.

  1. ^ WoRMS (2013). "Stegastes Jenyns, 1840". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Stegastes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Stegastes otophorus". FishBase. June 2012 version.