%20(39851326043).jpg)
Black Chromis
Chromis xanthura (Bleeker, 1854)
Also called'atoti (tah) · Chromis noir (fra) · Demoiselle à Queue Jaune (fra) · Monsuzumedai (jpn) · モンスズメダイ (jpn) · 厚殼仔 (zho) · 黃尾光鰓魚 (zho) · 黄尾光鳃鱼 (zho)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Réunion; Cocos-Keeling and Christmas islands (eastern Indian Ocean) east to Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Found above steep outer coral or rocky reef slopes and shallow coastal reef flats, sometimes forming large aggregations feeding on zooplankton several metres above the bottom, 3 – 40 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on photograph taken on 1 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3 – 32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Chromis xanthura in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212176.