[Image]Scientific Name: Stegastes nigricans
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 14cm
Identification: Variable from light brown or gray to nearly black; dark spot at base of rear dorsal fin, purplish streak below eye.
Favourite: Form groups; 'farm' algae; aggressive toward intruders.
Hide-out: Shelter in branching corals to 10m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Line Is. and French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga.