Species: Stegastes pictus, Yellow-tipped Damselfish

Stegastes pictus (Castelnau, 1855)
Yellow-tipped Damselfish
Body moderately elongate, robust, compressed; 1 pair of nostrils; margin of preopercle serrated; margin of bone under eye serrated, without notch between it and the bone before it; mouth small, protrusible, opens at front; teeth in single row, long and close-set incisors; 18-21 gill rakers; a single continuous dorsal fin, XII, 15-16; anal fin II, 14-15; dorsal and anal fins extend past tail base, with angular lobes; pectoral rays 18-20; no projecting short spines at upper and lower base of tail fin; caudal fin bluntly forked, lobes with blunt points; scales are moderately large and rough; body scaled, head largely scaled (snout scaled to nostrils), as are the basal parts of the median fins; lateral line incomplete, ends under end of dorsal fin base; lateral-line scales 19-20.
Adult: dark grey-brown; pectoral fin and upper half of tail fin yellow; a blue line along outer margins of pelvic and anal fins; base of pectoral black. Juvenile: similar to adult but yellow extends onto tail base and soft dorsal; an ocellus on base of last few dorsal spines.
Size: reaches 10 cm.
Depth: 5-158 m.
Lives on reefs.
Brazil; the SE Caribbean.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Omnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Benthic microalgae
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent only
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Vagrant
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 10
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 158