Stegastes variabilis cocoa damselfish

Stegastes variabilisis commonly referred to as cocoa damselfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 300 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Scientific:: Stegastes variabilis
German:: Riffbarsch
English:: Cocoa Damselfish

Category:: Damselfishes

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Stegastes (Genus) > variabilis (Species)
Initial determination:: (Castelnau, ), 1855

Occurrence:: Guadeloupe, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Panama, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Venezuela, West-Atlantic Ocean
Sea depth:: 0 - 30 Meter
Size:: up to 5.12" (13 cm)
Temperature:: 73.4 °F - 77 °F (23°C - 25°C)
Food:: Algae, Brine Shrimps, Flakes, Frozen Food (large sort), Krill, Mysis
Tank:: 65.99 gal (~ 300L)
Difficulty:: Average
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2012-04-11 08:25:28
Last edit:: 2017-02-21 15:33:49

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(Castelnau, 1855)

The cocoa damselfish, Stegastes variabilis, is a damselfish in the family Pomacentridae, found on coral and rocky reefs in the Caribbean Sea.

Adults fishes feed mainly on benthic algae, juvenile feed on invertebrates such as harpacticoid copepods.

Its easy to keep in reeftank but juveniles are aggressively territorial.

Synonyms:
Eupomacentrus chrysus Bean, 1906
Eupomacentrus variabilis (Castelnau, 1855)
Pomacentrus flaviventer Troschel, 1865
Pomacentrus variabilis Castelnau, 1855
Pomacentrus xanthurus Poey, 1860

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Labroidei (Suborder) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Stegastes (Genus) > Stegastes variabilis (Species)

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Unusual colour patterns of territorial damselfishes (Pomacentridae: Stegastes) in the Southwestern Atlantic (en). Abgerufen am 05.12.2021.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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