The Ambon damselfish was even able to recognize the same face when it was blended with other photographs of fish faces to create totally new images, demonstrating a truly impressive sense of ...

To explore what impact the presence of predators have on the development juvenile Ambon damselfish, (Pomacentrus amboinensis), young damselfish were caught at the end of their larval phase, before ...

The Ambon damselfish spends its young life floating in the sea currents, and then as a juvenile finds a suitable reef to settle down in. At this stage it is particularly vulnerable, ...

Named after its likeness to a windscreen wiper on dry glass, the wiping sound of the Ambon damselfish, Pomacentrus amboinensis, was recorded by scientists at a reef in Taiwan.

While we might use eye color and hairstyle to tell people apart, some fish species rely on ultraviolet light patterns of faces to distinguish one species from another, a new study finds.

Ambon damselfish spend their larval stage in the deep pelagic and then settle as juveniles on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. When the young fish arrive, they depend on their sense of smell ...

But the damselfish, apparently, cares not for such brash generalisations. Siebeck suggests that the very fact that UV patterns are hard to make out is a boon to the Ambon damselfish.

They placed a male fish from each species, Ambon damselfish (Pomacentrus amboinensis) and lemon damselfish (P. moluccensis), into plastic tubes and presented these to a territory owner, a male ...

Without the UV markings, the scientists propose, perhaps the Ambon damselfish couldn't easily tell the nearly identical lemon damselfish apart from its own species. While both these species of ...

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Both Ambon and lemon damselfish can see UV light. But plenty of their major predators, such as wrasses and cod, typically can’t, Siebeck says.

To explore what impact the presence of predators have on the development juvenile Ambon damselfish, (Pomacentrus amboinensis), young damselfish were caught at the end of their larval phase, before ...