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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyPomacentridae
  5. ›genusChromis
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Silverstripe chromis

Chromis alta Greenfield & Woods, 1980

Also calledCastagnola dal dorso argentato (ita) · Castanyoleta de línia platejada (cat) · Castañuela de lomo plateado (spa) · Chromis dorso plateado (spa) · Donzela-oval (por) · castañeta alta (spa) · 高身光鰓魚 (zho)

First described in: Greenfield, D. W.; Woods, L. P. (1980). Review of the deep-bodied species of Chromis (Pisces: Pomacentridae) from the eastern Pacific, with descriptions of three new species. <em>Copeia 1980.</em> (4): 626-641.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

description

Oval Chromis, Oval Damselfish, or Silverstripe Chromis. To 17.3 cm (6.8 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.). Santa Catalina Island, southern California (Richards and Engle 2001); Islas San Benito, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and (mainland) Arrecife Sacramento (29 ° 40 ’ N, 115 ° 47 ’ W) (M. L., unpubl. data), central Baja California to Pucusana, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Allen and Robertson 1994), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and many other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: 1 – 200 m (4 – 656 ft) (min.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997; max.: McCosker et al. 1997).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212215.