Dusky Damselfish
Stegastes adustus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Ovalentaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Stegastes
Where to Find
Found in 35 diving areas across 21 countries and 3 regions.
- Abaco, Bahamas - 3 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 2102 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 1 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 113 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 113 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 921 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 726 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 4 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 2 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 38 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 1 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 2 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 22 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 970 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 716 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 714 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 22 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 22 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 1 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 1 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 13 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 1249 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 939 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 71 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 92 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 8 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 34 records
- Utila, Honduras - 36 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 800 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 6 records