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Pomacentrus vaiuli

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2346663 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pomacentrus vaiuli, the ocellate damselfish, is a species of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae from the Pacific Ocean. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 10 cm (3.9 in) in length.

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pomacentrus vaiuli". FishBase. December 2008 version.

Editorial summary

“Pomacentrus vaiuli” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pomacentrus, vaiuli and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pomacentrus, vaiuli and species.
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“Pomacentrus vaiuli” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pomacentrus, vaiuli and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2346663. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pomacentrus vaiuli” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.