: a genus of small ovate short-headed marine teleost fishes commonly found about rocks and other submerged objects and usually included in the percoid family Pomacentridae but sometimes made the type of a separate family (Abudefdufidae)
First Known Use of Abudefduf
1897, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology for Abudefduf
borrowed from New Latin, borrowed from Arabic abūdafdūf