Reticulated damselfish
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The reticulated damselfish can lose its black bars as it grows larger.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Reticulated damselfish
- Scientific name
- Dascyllus reticulatus
- Japanese name
- フタスジリュウキュウスズメダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Dascyllus
Where the name “Reticulated damselfish” comes from
Its species name is Latin for "having a net-like pattern," referring to its scales.
Museums VictoriaIt lives from places such as the Izu Peninsula, Wakayama and the Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and Hong Kong, and from the eastern Indian Ocean across the Pacific.
How the Reticulated damselfish lives
Adults swim around coral and rocky reefs. It eats algae, zooplankton and small animals on the seabed. Young fish gather with other damselfishes between coral branches. When it senses danger, it darts between coral branches.
粟国村沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, eastern Indian and Pacific oceans excluding Hawaii, and elsewhere
Where the Reticulated damselfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 简体中文
- 网纹宅泥鱼
- 繁體中文
- 網紋圓雀鯛
- Español
- Damisela Reticulada
- Français
- Demoiselle réticulée
- Deutsch
- Netz-Preußenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Dascyllus-reticulado
- Italiano
- Damigella reticolata
- العربية
- ريتيكيوليت داسيكيلوس
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Dakocan putih
- Русский
- Cетчатый дасцилл
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — フタスジリュウキュウスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — フタスジリュウキュウスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 粟国村 — 粟国アーカイブス — フタスジリュウキュウスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Fishes of Australia — Headband Humbug, Dascyllus reticulatusChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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