Talk:Damselfish

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This article was the subject of an educational assignment in Fall 2013. Further details were available on the "Education Program:Washington University in St. Louis/Behavioral Ecology (Fall 2013)" page, which is now unavailable on the wiki.

I changed the scientific name from D. aruanus to D. melanurus. Looking at pictures of the character, she does have a black tail (versus a transparent one) which makes her a 4-striped damselfish, but that is a D. melanurus. D. aruanus refers to the three-striped damselfish, which has a clear/transparent tail. Shrumster 16:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added links for the following species names: Dascyllus albisella, Eupomacentrus planifrons, E. dorsopunicans, Stegastes partitus, S. leucostictus, S. nigricans, E. partitus. For E. partitus, I made a link to its synonym S. partitus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hami910311 (talk • contribs) 05:31, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I added links to other terms, changed species names so they would be consistent, ex: S. planifrons instead of Stegastes planifrons. I also changed some wording that I thought would help clarify meaning. Other suggestions for improving the page:

• The phrase "determine the male courtship rates" is unclear, please clarify
• Make the introduction more concise. Some information in the introduction may need to be moved to other sections or have their own sections created. Wenamy (talk) 05:53, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

 In my opinion, the foraging and the feeding can be combined together in one section.   In addition the second paragraph can be incorporated into the remaining part of the Wikipedia article. It is kind of confusing to have varied information that can be organized into later sections. Overall, it is very difficult to understand general behaviors of the damselfish since you refer to many different species, thus you need to specify.  I would recommend creating links for more words.

What I changed: -added hyperlinks for courting, clutch, suboptimal, -I changed around this paragraph by removing the first sentence and then moving the food part to the feeding section, and leaving the remaining as its own paragraph. : “Many species live in tropical coral reefs, and many of those are kept as marine aquarium pets, although some species such as white-spotted damselfish are too demanding for an average marine aquarium. Their diets include small crustaceans, plankton, and algae. However, many also live in temperate climates, such as the species which inhabits the coast of southern California and the Pacific Mexican coast, the garibaldi.” -Reordered the phrase under mating as this: E. partitus, male bicolor damselfish, are polygamous Gseehra123 (talk) 01:51, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I added a hyperlink for Amphiprion ocellaris into your article. I am a part of a Behavioral Ecology Class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Washington_University_in_St._Louis/Behavioral_Ecology_%28Fall_2013%29) Washington University and our assignment was to create hyperlinks from our articles to other articles as examples. Best of luck with your article!! Gseehra123 (talk) 22:12, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• You could add links, like to “Garibaldi species” • You can also reorganize your setup: like courtship and mating can both go under a heading, like reproduction maybe. • Make sure to refer to other good articles and add sections that you are missing, like description • You have a red hyperlink (meaning it links to no page) : S. rectifraenum, • Keep up the good work

Gseehra123 (talk) 17:40, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You have a very well-written article. I did not find anything blatantly wrong in terms of grammar or sentence structure. I would suggest that you have one big heading called "Behavior" and then make all the other headings you have into sub-headings under "Behavior." Other than that, well done!

Alex G Zhang (talk) 20:52, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am moving what is currently in the Territoriality section to species-specific pages. What is written here seems to be too specific for a family article. I will move the first paragraph to the Stegastes planifrons page and the second paragraph will be moved to the Stegastes adustus page. I will put a replacement paragraph that is more general to the family as a whole with brief mentions of these two examples.

MarineBiologyS (talk) 18:09, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to this, the sentence about the blue velvet damselfish was removed entirely because I could not find any source that supported what was said. This sentence was about male aggression.

MarineBiologyS (talk) 20:46, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It has been brought to my attention that at least two sections in this article are plagiarized directly from other sources. I will be making changes to remove the plagiarized content in the next 24 hours. One of the plagiarized sources can be found at: https://www.naturefootage.com/stock-footage/fish-footage/damselfish More to come as I figure things out. I am a student and new to this, so if anyone has any advice or tips, that would be great. Thanks!

MarineBiologyS (talk) 09:22, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As mentioned above, this page needs some significant changes. Most, if not all, of the directly plagiarized information, has been removed from this article and all articles where content was transferred. With that being said, there are still a few sections that need much work.

• I am updating the first paragraph as it may have been plagiarized. It is unclear whether the website above was the source of its own information, which was then transferred to this page, or if the website above copied it from this site. Either way, I have rewritten the information and present it with new sources.
• The Habitat section needs to include sources. As of now, there are no citations for this section at all.
• I have removed the sentence that was previously in the Habitat section that referred to diet. I have combined this with the Foraging section to create a Diet and Foraging Behavior section. Perhaps these can be separated in the future when there is more information in the Diet portion.
• The information presented in the (previously) Foraging section is not paraphrased enough and is technically plagiarism. This needs to be revised to be more general and appropriate for the encyclopedia. What is presented here is likely also more information than is required for this page. I would consider transferring some of it to the species-specific page. More species examples should eventually be presented so the information presented is comprehensive and generalized to the whole group.
• Plagiarized information has been removed from this section and a brief summarizing statement has been made with sources.
• Courtship section has the same issues as the Foraging section.
• Mating section has the same issues as the Foraging section. This and Courtship could be combined into one section and the information should be shortened and redistributed to other pages.
• Filial Cannibalism has the same issues as the Foraging section. This section may also not be necessary at all because I do not believe that this is a common practice within the group. If I am mistaken, more examples should be provided, and summarizing statements should be added.

Thanks!

MarineBiologyS (talk) 20:28, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]