New study co-authored by Scripps Oceanography identifies Corazon’s Damsel, a previously unknown species of damselfish found off Madagascar Damselfishes are a diverse group of small to medium-sized ...

A species of damselfish, Stegastes nigricans, selectively weed the algal gardens on which they feed in order to encourage the growth of their preferred algal species of Polysiphonia and suppress the ...

Scientists say the world's coral reefs could go extinct during our children's lifetimes. Human activities are putting this beautiful ecosystem at risk. Some risks are obvious — such as global warming, ...

The bicolor damselfish is a tropical marine species that inhabits shallow coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Damselfish have an oval-shaped body with a two-tone coloration ...

'Antisocial' damselfish are scaring off cleaner fish customers -- and this could contribute to coral reef breakdown. Damselfish have been discovered to disrupt 'cleaning services' vital to the health ...

Could anything be better than chilling by the sky-blue waters of Belize, with servants doing your grunt work? Not for the longfin damselfish, who has turned the planktonic mysid shrimp into a virtual ...

Queensland's long hot summers are taking their toll on Damselfish, one of the Great Barrier Reef's more common inhabitants. Damselfish are struggling to make it to adulthood as long periods of heat ...

Throughout nature, there are instances of animals aiding one another and living together in mutually beneficial relationships that have helped shape the world's landscapes and biodiversity. These ...

Being separated from "friends" can be a stressful experience for some coral reef fish, a new study has found. It can even cause them to lose weight. Scientists at James Cook University in north ...

This diagram illustrates the longfin damselfish-mysid relationship, where the niche created by the territorial algae farming longfin damselfish provides a protective refuge to mysids, leading to ...

You might think that a party thrown by a bunch of middle-age women science buffs would be a little dry. Especially if you walked into that party to find that the cocktail-hour entertainment consisted ...