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damselfish

[ UK /dˈæmsɛlfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs

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  • If attacked by a damselfish, it morphs one of its arms into the visage of the fearsome sea snake that eats damselfish. Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature
  • In the open water just off the reef, great swarms of damselfish cavorted, collecting plankton while barracuda cruised by trying to select an easy meal.
  • The mast rose up behind it, pointing to the sun above and masked only by dense shoals of damselfish, a fantastic sight.
  • Small oval-shaped fishes: damselfishes, hamlets, sea basses 5. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Closer to the reef, divers will be attracted by the hive of activity - wrasses, damselfish, butterflyfish and cleaner fish dart about foraging for food among the hard corals.
  • Many small fish, including juvenile fairy basslets and damselfish, retreat into crinoid arms when bigger fish appear.
  • Dorsey's study focuses on bicolor damselfish populations and reproductive success at two different kinds of coral reef habitats in the Caribbean - a near-shore fringing reef on Barbados and a deep offshore reef in Grenada.
  • Almost every day, we snorkel off a different island, dazzled by the brilliant, seemingly abundant sea life: angelfish, butterfly fish, damselfish, parrot fish, trumpetfish, schools of golden rays flying through the water.
  • Amid the ever-present clouds of little midnight-blue triggerfish and brilliant damselfish, and closely observed by a Napoleion wrasse, we rose from 20m in a gentle upward spiral until we ran out of reef.
  • But apparently the spinecheek anemonefish doesn't belong to the subfamily of anemonefishes (Amphiprioninae) but to another genus of damselfishes: Premnas Planet Atheism
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