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Lemon Damsel

Pomacentrus moluccensis

Also known as: Lemon Damselfish, Molucca Damsel, Molucca Demoiselle, Yellow Damsel, Yellow Damselfish

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2022
Adult
@fishx6 · Challenger Bay - Great Barrier Reef, Australia · July 20091 / 38
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Overview

Found in small schools, sheltering in the arms of branching corals, over clear water lagoons and fringing reefs. Tongan and Fijian Lemon Damsel's have completely different colouring to anywhere else.

Damselfish are egg layers.
First they clear a site ready for a nest, then engage in a mating dance with rapid swimming and fin movements, during this time the males will often turn a shade or two darker and may display white blotches. Spawning occurs at dawn.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Head & Mouth
ear spot
Behaviour
schooling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Eastern Indian Ocean, Western Pacific
  • Exact location · 9
  • Country only · 29
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Found in small schools, sheltering in the arms of branching corals, over clear water lagoons and fringing reefs.

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Adult photos 38

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderOvalentaria incertae sedis
    5. familyPomacentridae
    6. genusPomacentrus
    7. speciesPomacentrus moluccensis Bleeker, 1853

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    More in the family

    Damselfishes (Pomacentridae)