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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.
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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.
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The mast rose up behind it, pointing to the sun above and masked only by dense shoals of damselfish, a fantastic sight.
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Small oval-shaped fishes: damselfishes, hamlets, sea basses 5.
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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.
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Many small fish, including juvenile fairy basslets and damselfish, retreat into crinoid arms when bigger fish appear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But apparently the spinecheek anemonefish doesn't belong to the subfamily of anemonefishes (Amphiprioninae) but to another genus of damselfishes: Premnas
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On a recent visit, yellow damselfish peered through a porthole and a mean-mouthed barracuda lurked nearby.
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Many damselfishes care for “algae gardens or lawns” that they defend from other herbivores.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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This morphological signal also appears to persist, with the rabbitfishes, surgeonfishes (Acan - thuridae), damselfishes, and scats already occupying this space in the Eocene.
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In the 10-year period in question, 33 new fish species have been found in the waters around the island, including the damselfish, a strikingly brilliant blue wrasse and seven species of zig-zag rainbow fish, an 11cm-long creature which lives in shallow waters.
Conservationists discover more than 1,000 species in New Guinea
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Up to 25 percent of all fish on reefs are cardinalfish, and damselfish compose up to 50 percent of the total fish biomass (weight of all the fish) on reefs, the study says.
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(News source.) The most spectacular recovery was of the bright blue damselfish found 120m down off Palau.
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In addition, some fishes are quite good at identifying other species; the Beau Gregory damselfish is apparently able to distinguish 50 different reef fish species that occur within its territory.
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The anemonefishes provide some protection and bring in sources of nourishment for their anemone hosts, and some groups of juvenile damselfishes clean other fishes.
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Many male damselfish, wrasses, and angelfish, among others, maintain harems.
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Chromis abyssus – a beautiful species of damselfish made it to the top 10 representing the first taxonomic act of 2008 and the first act registered in the newly launched taxonomic database Zoobank.
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Blue tang surgeonfish and striped parrotfish forage in large ‘roving’ groups, feeding from the algal turf defended by damselfish (Pomacentridae).
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In the 10-year period in question, 33 new fish species have been found in the waters around the island, including the damselfish, a strikingly brilliant blue wrasse and seven species of zig-zag rainbow fish, an 11cm-long creature which lives in shallow waters.
Conservationists discover more than 1,000 species in New Guinea
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Because both cleaners and damselfish are diurnal, cleaning activities only occur during daylight periods.
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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.
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The sites are home to a vast variety of reef dwellers such as the damselfish, angelfish, butterflyfish and sweetlips.
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Closer to the reef and in among a necklace of smaller granite boulders are all the usual reef fish - butterflyfish, damselfish, Moorish idols, triggerfish, angelfish, groupers and lionfish.
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Grouper are close to the top of the fish food chain, anthias and damselfish near the bottom, so there must be smaller fish somewhere.
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The deadly shelter of the stinging tentacles of sea anemones, which are lethal to smaller creatures, provides safe lodging for spotted damselfish and boldly striped clown fish.
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There is no shortage of choice, a good variety of butterflyfish, an unusual striped damselfish, puffers and a shoal of small barracuda.
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Other important components of the fringing reef ecosystem include algae (brown, red and green), marine invertebrates (shrimp, lobster, crabs and sea urchins) and fishes (parrotfish, wrasses, damselfish, surgeonfish, goatfish, jacks and sharks).
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Feeling rather like a whale among minnows, I found myself in the middle of schools of small green damselfish and a host of mainly yellow and blue angelfish, bannerfish and butterfly fish.
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Dorsey chose to work with the bicolor damselfish because they are not considered a threatened or endangered species.
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Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
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Hundreds of tiny damselfishes dart around in shoals, finning their swift way through sunlit waters.
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An increase in territory quality has been shown to increase the aggressive intensity of S. planifrons, a damselfish closely related to the beaugregory damselfish.
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Many male damselfish, wrasses, and angelfish, among others, maintain harems.
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Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
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But apparently the spinecheek anemonefish doesn't belong to the subfamily of anemonefishes (Amphiprioninae) but to another genus of damselfishes: Premnas
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Dorsey chose to work with the bicolor damselfish because they are not considered a threatened or endangered species.
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The most common day predators are wrasses (family Labridae) and other damselfishes (family Pomacentridae).
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We conducted focal animal observations on juvenile three-spot damselfish in both continuous and patch reef habitat in 1991 and 1997.
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Three-spot damselfish are common members of Caribbean reef communities.
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These include the clownfish (Amphiprion), damselfish (Dascyllus), and wrasse (Coris gaimardi).
Indonesian Sea large marine ecosystem
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The glare of a UV light reveals that the even yellow colours of the damselfishes 'faces are actually streaked with complex patterns.
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The census also revealed that four fish species - butterfly fish, damselfish, and two wrasses - may now be locally extinct.
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The tropical fish tank came fully equipped: pumps, filters, hoses, light fixtures, coral arrangements, and a small cadre of lively black-and-white-striped damselfish, also called demoiselles.
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Small damselfishes make a new reef-style habitat in the tangle of branches.
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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.
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Longfin damselfish aggressively defend their territory from all intruders and are therefore rarely cleaned by facultative cleaners such as juvenile bluehead wrasse and Spanish hogfish.
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The sites are home to a vast variety of reef dwellers such as the damselfish, angelfish, butterflyfish and sweetlips.
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Down the bottom, skulking around coral in the sandy lagoon floor, are tiny damselfishes.
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The BBC series Pacific Abyss shows the discovery of several new species of damselfish.
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I can see small schools of brightly coloured damselfish dart in and out of their coral shelters.
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Swarms of anthias, wrasse, emerald green triggerfish, damselfish, clownfish and butterflyfish shrouded it but never strayed far into the intermediate zone patrolled by trevally, tuna, jacks and fusiliers.
