About Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801)
Abudefduf sexfasciatus, commonly called the scissortail sergeant, has a white body marked with five vertical black bands. Two horizontal bands are also present on the lobes of its tail. This fish reaches a maximum total length of 22 centimetres (8.7 inches). The species is distributed across the Indo-Pacific region, including the Red Sea. In the Indian Ocean portion of its range, it can be found from the Red Sea and eastern Africa through Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Persian Gulf, India, Sri Lanka, the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea, Indonesia, and Australia. In the Pacific Ocean, populations occur from the Great Barrier Reef off Australia, through the Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, and across various Pacific islands extending all the way to Hawaii. A single 2017 record of this species exists from the eastern Mediterranean Sea near Athens, Greece, and this occurrence is thought to be the result of an aquarium release. Adult scissortail sergeants inhabit coral reefs, while younger individuals live in the open sea. This species occurs at depths between 1 and 20 metres (3.3 to 65.6 ft).
