Saltwater fish, Damselfishes. Found on coral reefs, sandy bottoms and tide-pools. When not spawning they live alone or in small groups.  When in spawning cycle they merge into large schools. Males guard their (red) eggs for four days.

- Dusky Damselfish Stegastes adustus.

Size: 10 to 15 cm, max 17,5 cm.
Colour: Silvery tot greyish-white with 5 dark bars, yellowback and dusky fins. Purple eggs.
Shape: Body laterally flattened, oval in profile.
Fins: Caudalfin is forked.

Inhabits coral reefs. Occurs above steep slopes and patch reefs, between 2 and 40 m.

BES-eilanden: St. Eustatius.

[Marion Haarsma, feb. 2016]

- DeLoach, N., & Humann, P. (2002). Reef Fish Identification - Florida Caribbean Bahamas - 3th Edition. New World Publications, Inc.

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