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Stegastes leucorus
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Stegastes leucorus

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Stegastes leucorus
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Stegastes leucorus
Stegastes arcifrons
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Stegastes arcifrons

Stegastes arcifrons
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Stegastes arcifrons
Stegastes baldwini
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Stegastes baldwini

Stegastes baldwini
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Stegastes baldwini
Stegastes redemptus
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Stegastes redemptus

Stegastes redemptus
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Stegastes redemptus
Stegastes arcifrons
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Stegastes arcifrons

Stegastes flavilatus
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Stegastes flavilatus
Stegastes flavilatus
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Stegastes flavilatus

Stegastes baldwini
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Stegastes baldwini
Stegastes acapulcoensis
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Stegastes acapulcoensis

Stegastes acapulcoensis
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Stegastes acapulcoensis
Stegastes beebei
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Stegastes beebei

Stegastes
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Stegastes
Kinds
español

Overview
Main identification features
  • body oblong
  • preopercle and bone under eye: edges serrated
STEGASTES

GREGORIES, DAMSELFISHES, MAJORS

Margins of preopercle & bone under rear of eye serrated, latter bone scaled; no notch between bones under eye; jaw teeth in single rows, long and close-set; snout scaled to nostrils; XII-XIV dorsal fin spines.

A pantropical genus with about 40 species. The 8 species found in our region are endemic to it.


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