Stegastes punctatus

Stegastes punctatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Pomacentridae
Genus:	Stegastes
Species:	S. punctatus
Binomial name
	Stegastes punctatus; (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
Synonyms
	Pomacentrus punctatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825; Pomacentrus prosopotaenioides Bleeker, 1852; Pomacentrus cyanospilos Bleeker, 1853; Pomacentrus kumkum Montrouzier, 1857; Eupomacentrus kumkum (Montrouzier, 1857); Pomacentrus obscurus Thiollière, 1857;

Stegastes punctatus, commonly known as the blunt snout gregory, is a damselfish of the family Pomacentridae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region where it is found at depths down to 5 m (16 ft). Its range extends from the East African coast and the Red Sea to the Line Islands, the Society Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, the Bonin Islands, New Caledonia, Tonga and Micronesia.^[2] It is a very territorial species and drives other fish away from its "garden" of filamentous algae.

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