Dascyllus

Dascyllus
Dascyllus melanurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Pomacentridae
Genus:	Dascyllus Cuvier, 1829
Species
See text.

Dascyllus is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.

Species

• Dascyllus albisella (Gill, 1862)
• Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Dascyllus auropinnis (Randall and Randall, 2001)
• Dascyllus carneus (Fischer, 1885)
• Dascyllus flavicaudus (Randall and Allen, 1977)
• Dascyllus marginatus (Rüppell, 1829)
• Dascyllus melanurus 'Four-stripe damselfish' (Bleeker, 1854)
• Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846)
• Dascyllus strasburgi (Klausewitz, 1960)
• Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829)

Trivia

Deb, a Black and White Humbug in the film Finding Nemo, is a four-stripe damselfish (Dascyllus melanurus).^[1]

References

1. ^ "What Kind of Creature Is It? Finding Nemo - Cast of Characters", Cynthia Kirkeby, Class Brain, May 22, 2004

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Dascyllus in FishBase. January 2006 version.