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Atlantic Sergeant Major

🇳🇱 Sergeant-majoorvis ·Abudefduf saxatilis

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL
Atlantic Sergeant Major, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © François Libert · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The sergeant major or píntano ( Abudefduf saxatilis ) is a species of damselfish. 0 in).

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 11,764iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 11,764 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Atlantic Sergeant Major
Nederlands
Sergeant-majoorvis
scientific name
Abudefduf saxatilis
class
Actinopterygii
order
Blenniiformes
family
Pomacentridae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
1
sightings worldwide
11,764
GBIF records in NL
4
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Pomacentridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49402, Wikidata Q2070648, GBIF 2398623, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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