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#2351 · 🐟 fish

Blackspot Sergeant

Abudefduf sordidus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe
Blackspot Sergeant, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © zsispeo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Abudefduf sordidus , commonly known as the blackspot sergeant or kūpīpī in Hawaii, is a large solitary damselfish in the family Pomacentridae native to the tropical Indo-Pacific.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 4,178iNaturalist 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.
  • 4,178 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Blackspot Sergeant
scientific name
Abudefduf sordidus
class
Actinopterygii
order
Blenniiformes
family
Pomacentridae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
4,178
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

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

relatives· Pomacentridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 123922, Wikidata Q2402954, GBIF 2398682, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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