Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 9 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, branching corals
The reticulate dascyllus is a small grey-brown fish with a yellowish tail, living in groups in the branches of corals. It shelters among them when a threat appears.
Did you know?
Damselfish depend on coral to hide: when the coral dies, the groups disappear.
Source: Reef ecology
Tahitian names: generic name for damselfish. French name: Demoiselle à queue jaune.
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