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Abudefduf Forsskål, 1775
Taxonomic Serial No.: 170045

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Nexilarius Gilbert in Jordan and Evermann, 1896
		Glyphisodon Lacépède, 1802
		Euschistodus Gill, 1862
		Indoglyphidodon Fowler, 1944
		Glyphidodon Agassiz, 1846
	Common Name(s):	sergeant majors [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2004

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Actinopterygii – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées
	Class	Teleostei
	Superorder	Acanthopterygii
	Order	Perciformes – perch-like fishes
	Suborder	Labroidei – parrotfishes, rainbowfishes, wrasses, labres, poissons-perroquets
	Family	Pomacentridae – damselfishes, demoiselles, castañetas y jaquetas, sergents
	Genus	Abudefduf Forsskål, 1775 – sergeant majors
		Direct Children:
	Species	Abudefduf abdominalis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) – banded damselfish
	Species	Abudefduf barffi Curtiss, 1938
	Species	Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787)
	Species	Abudefduf bicolor (Rochebrune, 1880)
	Species	Abudefduf concolor (Gill, 1862)
	Species	Abudefduf conformis Randall and Earle, 1999
	Species	Abudefduf declivifrons (Gill, 1862) – Mexican night sergeant, petaca mexicana
	Species	Abudefduf hoefleri (Steindachner, 1881)
	Species	Abudefduf lorenzi Hensley and Allen, 1977
	Species	Abudefduf luridus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830)
	Species	Abudefduf manikfani Jones and Kumaran, 1970
	Species	Abudefduf margariteus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830)
	Species	Abudefduf natalensis Hensley and Randall, 1983
	Species	Abudefduf notatus (Day, 1870) – dusky damsel
	Species	Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) – sergeant major, píntano, petaca rayada
	Species	Abudefduf septemfasciatus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) – sevenband demoiselle, sevenbanded sergeant major
	Species	Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacépède, 1801) – striptailed damselfish
	Species	Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskål, 1775) – kupipi, spot pom, blackspot sergeant, blackspot sergeant major
	Species	Abudefduf sparoides (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) – false-eye damsel
	Species	Abudefduf taurus (Müller and Troschel in Schomburgk, 1848) – night sergeant, píntano toro, petaca toro
	Species	Abudefduf theresae Curtiss, 1938
	Species	Abudefduf trilineatus Wang, 1941
	Species	Abudefduf troschelii (Gill, 1862) – Pacific sergeant major, Panamic sergeant major, petaca banderita
	Species	Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825)
	Species	Abudefduf whitleyi Allen and Robertson, 1974

References


	Expert(s):
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	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)
	Acquired:	2004
	Notes:	http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/
	Reference for:	Abudefduf

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Abudefduf

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes
	Publication Date:	2003
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	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
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	Notes:	As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998
	Reference for:	Abudefduf

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N.
	Publication Date:	1990
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Genera of Recent Fishes
	Page(s):	iii + 697
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, CA, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-23-8
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Abudefduf

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N., ed.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Article/Chapter Title:	Catalog of Fishes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3
	Page(s):	2905
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, California, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-47-5
	Notes:	Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932
	Reference for:	Abudefduf

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Nelson, Joseph S.
	Publication Date:	1994
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Fishes of the World, Third Edition
	Page(s):	xvii + 600
	Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons
	Publication Place:	New York, New York, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-471-54713-1
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	Reference for:	Abudefduf

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Comments


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