damselfish

Examples

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• Just before dawn, he found two cone shells he couldn't identify, three inches long and audacious, attempting to devour a damselfish they had paralyzed.

  Fiction book (2001)

• "But then when you see it all again"—she thought of her damselfish—"it comes back to you."

  Fiction book (1998)

• Everything inside has died except for two damselfish and the pieces of pink coral.

  Fiction book (1999)

• "It's a yellowtailed damselfish," Wally said.

  Fiction book (1998)

• That's about all she knew in the way of names, except for her new favorite, the yellow-tailed damselfish, the Queen of Night-on-Her-Back.

  Fiction book (1998)

• That would make her look like a yellow-tailed damselfish, the fish she had promised herself to fill an aquarium full of when they got back to San Francisco.

  Fiction book (1998)

• While treading water later, after the encounter with the school of damselfish, Petra confessed to her husband, "Wally."

  Fiction book (1998)

• The researchers found that damselfish showed reduced antipredator behavior when exposed to 850 atm CO2, which is equivalent to the CO2 level projected by the end of this century.

  Blog text (21)

• Habitat-specialist reef fish are members of the Pomacentridae (damselfish), Gobiidae (goby), Caracanthidae (coral croucher), and Cirrhitidae (hawkfish) families (figure 1).

  Academic text (2013)

• The bright blue damselfish danced around the coral, adding vibrant color to the reef.

Synonyms

D

demoiselle

vsdamselfish

9.9

A small bright tropical fish that lives on coral reefs

is the general common name used for these small reef fishes

P

Pomacentridae

vsdamselfish

• Specialized

9.9

Small colorful fish that live on tropical coral reefs

refers to an individual fish rather than the whole taxonomic group

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology