What is Pomacentridae?
{{Automatic taxobox | name = Clownfish and damselfish | image = Caribbean Cocoa damselfish.jpg | image_caption = Cocoa damselfish, ''[[Stegastes variabilis]]'' | taxon = Pomacentridae | authority = [[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1832<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp | year = 2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268078514 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 001–230 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | type_species = ''[[Pomacentrus pavo]]'' | type_species_authority = Bloch, 1787 }} {{Commons category|Pomacentridae}} '''Pomacentridae''' is a [[family (biology)|family]] of [[ray-finned fish]], being made up of the [[damselfish]]es and [[clownfish]]es. This family were formerly placed in the order [[Perciformes]] but are now seen as being ''[[incertae sedis]]'' in the subseries [[Ovalentaria]] in the [[clade]] [[Percomorpha]].<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=752 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2023-08-26 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> They are mostly [[ocean|marine]], while a few species inhabit [[fresh water|freshwater]] and [[brackish]] environments (e.g., ''[[Neopomacentrus aquadulcis]]'', ''[[Neopomacentrus taeniurus|N. taeniurus]]'', ''[[Pomacentrus taeniometopon]]'', ''[[Stegastes otophorus]]'').<ref name=Jenkins_Allen>{{cite journal |author1=Jenkins, A.P. |author2=G.R. Allen |name-list-style=amp | year=2002 | title=''Neopomacentrus aquadulcis'', a new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) from eastern