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Indo-Pacific Sergeant Major

Abudefduf vaigiensis

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
  2. 2. © Andrew Deacon · CC0
  3. 3. © François Libert · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  4. 4. © Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 4.0
  6. 6. © mumudu · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © divemecressi · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  8. 8. © ajhg · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  9. 9. © Richard Ling · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  10. 10. © Richard Ling · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Indo-Pacific Sergeant Major, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © portioid · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The Indo-Pacific sergeant ( Abudefduf vaigiensis ) may also be known as the Sergeant major although this name is usually reserved for the closely related species Abudefduf saxatilis .

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 8,596iNaturalist 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.
  • 8,596 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1825 (201 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Indo-Pacific Sergeant Major
scientific name
Abudefduf vaigiensis
class
Actinopterygii
order
Blenniiformes
family
Pomacentridae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
1
sightings worldwide
8,596
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1825 by Joseph Paul Gaimard

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

relatives· Pomacentridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49403, Wikidata Q2217479, GBIF 2398634, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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