Stegastes pictus, Abrolhos Islands, Brazil, Photo: Graham Edgar
Distribution
Description
Dark grey-brown with yellow pectoral fins, tail fin and rear of dorsal fin, iris yellow, and outer eye blue. Lower tail lobe sometimes black. Aggressively territorial, chasing other fish out of their territory.
Information
Max Size: 8 cm
Sea Temperature Range: 24.6-28.1°C
Rarity
IUCN Threat Status: Not Evaluated
Occurrence: Widespread (67% of sites)
Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution.
It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed
Abundance: Many (15 per transect)
Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.
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Stegastes pictus, Abrolhos Islands, Brazil, Photo: Graham Edgar
