Saltwater fish, Damselfishes. Dark brown to blackish in front and pale to white in the rear, sometimes a patch of orange mid body and yellow fins.

- Cocoa damselfish Stegastes variabilis.
- Yellowtail Damselfish Microspathodon chrysurus.

Size: 5 to 9 cm, max 10 cm.
Colour: Dark area may only cover upper head or exstand past midbody to base of tail. Pale area often yellowish near boundary, especially toward belly.
Shape: Body laterally flattened, oval in profile.

Inhabits coral reefs. Found near the top of the coral heads, often in the company of chromises. Agressively territorial, but tend to guard only a small area.

BES-eilanden: St. Eustatius.

[Marleen Schouten, march 2016]; [Marion Haarsma, 2016]

- Humann, P., & DeLoach, N. (1989). Reef fish identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas.

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