Abudefduf

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

Abudefduf
Abudefduf sordidus Hawaii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pomacentridae
Subfamily: Pomacentrinae
Genus: Abudefduf
Forsskål, 1775
Type species
Chaetodon sordidus
Forsskål, 1775[1]

The name is from Arabic abu, "the one with"; and def, "side", and the intensive plural ending -duf. The name thus means "the one with prominent sides".[2]

General Biology

The approximately 20 species of Abudefduf may be divided into planktivores and benthivores and three broadly pantropical clades.[3][4][5] Two of the Abudefduf clades are primarily benthivorous and a third clade is composed of planktivores and is the most species-rich. Most diversification has occurred in the last 10 million years within this genus across all clades[6].

Species

There are currently 19 recognized species in this genus:[7]

  • Abudefduf abdominalis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Green damselfish)
  • Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787) (Bengal sergeant)
  • Abudefduf caudobimaculatus Okada and Ikeda, 1939[8]
  • Abudefduf concolor (T. N. Gill, 1862)
  • Abudefduf conformis J. E. Randall & Earle, 1999
  • Abudefduf declivifrons (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Mexican nightsergeant)
  • Abudefduf hoefleri (Steindachner, 1881) (African sergeant)
  • Abudefduf lorenzi Hensley & G. R. Allen, 1977 (Black-tail sergeant)
  • Abudefduf luridus (Cuvier, 1830) (Canary damsel)
  • Abudefduf margariteus (G. Cuvier, 1830) (Pearly sergeant)
  • Abudefduf natalensis Hensley & J. E. Randall, 1983 (Natal sergeant)
  • Abudefduf notatus (F. Day, 1870) (Yellowtail sergeant)
  • Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sergeant-major)
  • Abudefduf septemfasciatus (G. Cuvier, 1830) (Banded sergeant)
  • Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacépède, 1801) (Scissortail sergeant)
  • Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskål, 1775) (Blackspot sergeant)
  • Abudefduf sparoides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (False-eye sergeant)
  • Abudefduf taurus (Müller & Troschel, 1848) (Night sergeant)
  • Abudefduf troschelii (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Panamic sergeant-major)
  • Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Indo-Pacific sergeant)
  • Abudefduf whitleyi G. R. Allen & D. R. Robertson, 1974 (Whitley's sergeant)
  • Abudefduf abdominalis
  • Abudefduf bengalensis
  • Abudefduf declivifrons
  • Abudefduf notatus
  • Abudefduf saxatilis
  • Abudefduf septemfasciatus
  • Abudefduf sexfasciatus
  • Abudefduf sordidus
  • Abudefduf sparoides
  • Abudefduf troschelii
  • Abudefduf vaigiensis

References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (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.
  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. doi:10.1086/668599. ISSN 0003-0147. PMID 23234848.
  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. doi:10.7717/peerj.5357. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6097498. PMID 30128183.
  7. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). Species of Abudefduf in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  8. Wibowo, K., M. Toda and H. Motomura, 2018. Validity of Abudefduf caudobimaculatus Okada and Ikeda 1939 and synonymies of Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard 1825) (Perciformes: Pomacentridae). Ichthyological Research v. 65 (no. 1): [1-14] 78-91.


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