Species: Stegastes acapulcoensis, Acapulco damselfish
Stegastes acapulcoensis (Fowler, 1944)
Acapulco damselfish
Body oval, robust, compressed; 1 pair of nostrils; margin of preopercle serrated; margin of bone under eye serrated, without notch it and the bone before it; mouth small, protrusible; teeth in single row, long and close-set; gill rakers 17-21; a single continuous dorsal fin, XII, 15 (rarely 16); anal rays II, 13; pectoral rays usually 21 or 22 (rarely 20 or 23); no projecting short spines at upper and lower base of tail fin; caudal fin bluntly forked; 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 scales 20; lateral line incomplete, ends under end of dorsal fin base.
Grey-brown, lighter on head and anterior part of body, most of scales with blackish margin; white uppermost pectoral rays, a prominent white band across base of rays on outer face of pectoral-fin axil; juveniles bright blue with a prominent ocellus at the base of the soft dorsal fin and an ocellated black spot on the dorsal edge of the caudal peduncle.
Size: reaches a length of 18 cm.
Occurs along rocky shores.
Depth: about 1-16 m.
The central Gulf of California to Chile plus the Revillagigedos, Galapagos, Cocos and Malpelo.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Omnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Sessile crustacea
- Benthic microalgae
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Sessile worms
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Max
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- 16
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Length Max
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- 18
