Species: Stegastes planifrons, Threespot damselfish


Stegastes planifrons (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
Threespot damselfish
Body relatively deep, oval, 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; 8-9 lower gill rakers; a single continuous dorsal fin, XII, 15-17; anal fin II, 13-14; dorsal and anal fins long, extend past tail fin base, with large, rounded lobes; pectoral rays 18-20; no projecting short spines at upper and lower base of tail fin; caudal fin bluntly forked, lobes of tail large, bluntly rounded; 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 18-20.
Adult: entirely grey-brown, with tan tint to lower head and body; a black spot on the base of the pectoral fin and, sometimes, another on tail base; top of eye yellowish. Juvenile: body and fins bright yellow; a large black spot on base of dorsal fin at end of spines; a smaller black spot on upper base of tail.
Size: reaches 12.5 cm.
Shallow reefs.
Depth: 0-43 m.
Bermuda to the S Caribbean.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- 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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- Omnivore
- Planktivore
- Corallivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Benthic microalgae
- Zooplankton
- Soft corals/hydroids
- Phytoplankton
- Mobile benthic worms
- Sponges/seasquirts/bryozoa
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Hard corals
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- GC endemic
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Max
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- 43
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Length Max
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- 12.5