Cloudy dascyllus
Amazing fact
The cloudy dascyllus has small blue spots on the scales of its head, nape and breast.
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The cloudy dascyllus has small blue spots on the scales of its head, nape and breast.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Cloudy dascyllus
- Scientific name
- Dascyllus carneus
- Japanese name
- インディアンダッシラス
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Dascyllus
Where the name “Cloudy dascyllus” comes from
The genus name Dascyllus comes from a Greek word for a type of fish.
FishBaseHow the Cloudy dascyllus lives
It is active during the day. It eats plankton. It gathers in groups around branching corals. Males guard their eggs and move water over them.
FishBase国立科学博物館Basic data
- Range
- Indian Ocean
Where the Cloudy dascyllus 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
- 日本語
- インディアンダッシラス
- 简体中文
- 肉色宅泥鱼
- 繁體中文
- 肉色宅泥魚
- Español
- Damisela India
- Français
- Demoiselle obscure
- Deutsch
- Weißschwanz-Preußenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Dascyllus-indiano
- Italiano
- Damigella crema
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 — インディアンダッシラスChecked: 2026-11-04
- 国立科学博物館 — Dascyllus carneus — Indian DascyllusChecked: 2026-11-07
- FishBase — Dascyllus carneus, Cloudy dascyllusChecked: 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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