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Feeding macroecology of territorial damselfishes (Perciformes: Pomacentridae)

Marine Biology, 2009
The present study provides the first analysis of the feeding macroecology of territorial damselfishes (Perciformes: Pomacentridae), a circumtropical family whose feeding and behavioral activities are important in structuring tropical and subtropical reef benthic communities.
Barneche, Diego R., Floeter, S.R., Ceccarelli, D.M., Frensel, D.M.B., Dinslaken, D.F., Mario, H.F.S., Ferreira, C.E.L.   +6 more
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In situ settlement behaviour of damselfish (Pomacentridae) larvae

Journal of Fish Biology, 2002
Settlement‐stage damselfish (Pomacentridae) larvae of 13 species in seven genera were obtained from light traps at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Behaviour, observed in situ by SCUBA divers, of 245 larvae (6–13 mm, LS; 5–60 individuals per species) released individually within a few m of reefs during the day differed markedly among ...
J. M. Leis, B. M. Carson‐Ewart
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Ontogenetic changes in the auditory sensitivity of damselfishes (pomacentridae)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 1996
Psychophysical experiments demonstrated that the hearing abilities of two damselfish species change during ontogeny. Auditory thresholds of four size-groups of juvenile bicolor damselfish. Pomacentrus partitus, and for comparative purposes, three different sized juveniles belonging to a closely related species, P.
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Adaptive radiation of damselfishes (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) in the eastern Pacific

Marine Biology, 2015
Pomacentridae is one of the most abundant families in tropical and temperate rocky and coral reefs. They present an extraordinary diversity of habitat preferences, feeding, morphologies and behavior. The eastern Pacific is biogeographically isolated by the Isthmus of Panama and the eastern Pacific barrier.
Rosalía Aguilar-Medrano, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, P. David Polly   +2 more
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Propagation of damselfish (Pomacentridae) courtship sounds

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1997
Many damselfishes perform a courtship behavior known as the signal jump, in which they rise in the water column and then rapidly swim downward while producing a pulsed sound. Pulsed sounds produced during the signal jump of the damselfish Dascyllus albisella were analyzed to determine whether they were correlated with the signal jump distance or speed,
David A. Mann, Phillip S. Lobel
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The Causal Factors and Function of Yawning' in Microspathodon Chrysurus (Pisces: Pomacentridae)

Behaviour, 1971
The behaviour pattern 'yawning' in Microspathodon chrysurus has been shown to be initiated by high levels of excitement and low levels of kinetic activity. High excitement can be either endogenously produced by frustration and thwarting or by exogenous visual stimuli of a non-specific type.
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Karyoevolutionary Processes in Atlantic Damselfishes of the Genus Stegastes (Pomacentridae)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research
Background: The damselfishes, an extremely diverse group of herbivorous fish, stands out as an important and ubiquitous ecological component of coral reefs. In the Western South Atlantic, the genus Stegastes is the most representative, whose evolutionary paths and taxonomic status of insular endemic species have been better evaluated.
Marsílio S P, Rocha, Gideão W W F, Costa, Marcelo B, Cioffi, Luiz A C, Bertollo, Vanessa C S, Oliveira, Karlla D J, Amorim, Wagner F, Molina   +6 more
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Allometric growth in the damselfishes of the genus Dascyllus (Pomacentridae)

2007
The Pomacentridae, commonly known as damselfishes, is one of the most specious families of coral reef fishes (>350 species). The genus Dascyllus contains ten species which are fall into three complexes: the aruanus, reticulatus and trimaculatus. The members of the two first complexes are small-bodied with a maximum standard length (SL) of 50-65 mm and ...
Frederich, Bruno, Colleye, Orphal, Vandewalle, Pierre   +2 more
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Adaptive capacity assessment of damselfishes (Pomacentridae)

2017
Assessing the multiple facets of adaptive capacity is a core issue as it reflects species' ability to cope with variations in environmental conditions. Within the threatened coral reefs, the Pomacentridae (damselfishes) represent a very suitable model to undertake such issue.
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Courtship Sounds of the Pacific Damselfish, Abudefduf sordidus (Pomacentridae)

The Biological Bulletin, 1999
P S, Lobel, L M, Kerr
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