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title: "Dusky Damselfish"
description: "Stegastes adustus — Vissen. Stegastes adustus, also known as the dusky damselfish or scarlet-backed demoiselle, is a species of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/dusky-damselfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Dusky Damselfish

> Stegastes adustus — Vissen. Stegastes adustus, also known as the dusky damselfish or scarlet-backed demoiselle, is a species of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae.

- Scientific name: *Stegastes adustus*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1623
- Wikidata: [Q1981790](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1981790)
- iNaturalist taxon: [49923](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49923)

## Names

- en: Dusky Damselfish
- de: Dunkler Riffbarsch
- es: Jaqueta prieta
- fr: Demoiselle brune

## Countries with the most observations

US (320), MX (92), PR (72), VI (41), MQ (37), BS (35), JM (35), GP (30), CW (26), KY (26), TT (25), HN (21)

## Summary

Stegastes adustus, also known as the dusky damselfish or scarlet-backed demoiselle, is a species of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae. It is found at one-  to three-meter depths on surging and wavy coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea, the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Stari Plativky · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144161404

## Machine access

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