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Created 2/22/2019

Family Pomacentridae

WEST PACIFIC

Pomacentrus bankanensis



Palau, 6 feet



Fiji, 10 feet
  

SPECKLED DAMSEL

Common on mixed reef at any depth.  Extremely variable, blue-gray, brown, or golden-brown with neon blue stripes on forehead, upper body orange in juveniles, ocellated spot on rear dorsal fin, dark spots at 'ear' and upper pectoral base, caudal peduncle brown and white, caudal rays clear.  Attains 3.25 inches.  Indonesia to Okinawa, east to Fiji.