Stegastes variabilis

Stegastes variabilis
Cocoa damselfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacentridae
Genus: Stegastes
Species: S. variabilis
Binomial name
Stegastes variabilis
(Castelnau, 1855)

The cocoa damselfish, stegastes variabilis, is a damselfish of the family Pomacentridae, found on coral and rocky reefs in the Caribbean Sea and neighboring areas in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

Adults feed mainly on benthic algae but also on sponges, ascidiacea and anemones while juvenile feed on invertebrates such as harpacticoid copepods and nemerteans.[1]

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