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Indian Humbug

Dascyllus abudafur

Classification

Dascyllus abudafur, the Indian Ocean humbug, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Pomacentridae, the clownfishes and damselfishes. Distribution It is found in the Red Sea, along the coasts of eastern Africa to South Africa, the Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarene Islands east to the Sunda Islands. Taxonomy It has previously been classified as synonymous with the Pacific humbug (Dascyllus aruanus) but mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analysis shows that the two species were are genetically and morphologically different, with different geographic ranges.

Distribution

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