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title: "Bicolor Damselfish"
description: "Stegastes partitus — Fish. Stegastes partitus or the bicolor damselfish is a species of bony fish in the family Pomacentridae found near the sea bed on shallow rocky and coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of Florida."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/bicolor-damselfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bicolor Damselfish

> Stegastes partitus — Fish. Stegastes partitus or the bicolor damselfish is a species of bony fish in the family Pomacentridae found near the sea bed on shallow rocky and coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of Florida.

- Scientific name: *Stegastes partitus*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 1743
- Wikidata: [Q1993753](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1993753)
- iNaturalist taxon: [128183](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/128183)

## Names

- en: Bicolor Damselfish
- de: Zweifarben-Gregory
- es: Jaqueta bicolor
- fr: Demoiselle bicolore de l'Atlantique

## Countries with the most observations

MX (157), US (116), HN (91), KY (85), CW (76), MQ (72), BZ (61), VI (48), BS (46), GP (43), CU (33), LC (33)

## Summary

Stegastes partitus or the bicolor damselfish is a species of bony fish in the family Pomacentridae found near the sea bed on shallow rocky and coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of Florida.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegastes_partitus

## Photo

![Bicolor Damselfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bicolor-damselfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Daniel Estabrooks · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365119668

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bicolor-damselfish?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).