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Stegastes planifrons - Threespot damselfish
| Adults brownish gray with a yellowish cast; vertical dark lines following scale rows; a large blackish spot covering most of pectoral base, darkest near upper part; pectorals slightly dusky. The young are bright yellow with a large black spot at base of dorsal fin at junction of spinous and soft portions, a large black spot dorsally on caudal peduncle and a small one at upper pectoral base.
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| Distribution, Stock Structure and Migration |
| Western Atlantic: including southern Florida (USA), Bahamas, and the Caribbean Sea.
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| Habitat |
| Inhabits inshore and offshore coral reefs. Found within caves at night. Often found in tangles of staghorn coral; anywhere there is abundant algae on reefs.
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| Diet |
| Feeds mainly on algae but also on harpacticoid copepods, small gastropods, eggs of mollusks, sponges, polychaetes and hydroids. Juveniles subsist on the external parasites of fishes.
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| Quick Fact |
| Pugnaciously guards large territories, will chase and nip intruders of all sizes, including divers.
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