Dascyllus abudafur

Dascyllus abudafur, the Indian Ocean humbug, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Pomacentridae, the clownfishes and damselfishes. It is found from the Red Sea, along the coasts of eastern Africa to South Africa, the Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarene Islands east to the Sunda Islands. It has been classified as synonymous with the Pacific humbug Dascyllus aruanus and is not included in FishBase[2] but studies have shown that the two taxa were shown to be genetically and morphologically different.[3] The specific name is derived from the Arabic word for this species Abu-dafur Jabûd.[4]

Dascyllus abudafur
Dascyllus abudafur Réunion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pomacentridae
Genus: Dascyllus
Species:
D. abudafur
Binomial name
Dascyllus abudafur

References
  1. "Species Dascyllus abudafur Forsskål 1775". FishWisePro. 1775. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Dascyllus in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. Borsa, P.; Sembiring, A.; Fauvelot, C.; Chen, W.-J. (2014). "Resurrection of Indian Ocean humbug damselfish, Dascyllus abudafur (Forsskål) from synonymy with its Pacific Ocean sibling, Dascyllus aruanus (L.)" (PDF). Comptes Rendus Biologies. 337 (12): 709–716. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2014.09.001. PMID 25433563.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (29 August 2018). "Subseries OVALENTARIA (Incertae sedis): Family POMACENTRIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 October 2018.


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