Chromis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ovalentaria
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria

Familia: Pomacentridae
Subfamilia: Chrominae
Genus: Chromis
Species: C. abadhah – C. abrupta – C. abyssicola – C. abyssus – C. acares – C. agilis – C. albicauda – C. albomaculata – C. alleni – C. alpha – C. alta – C. amboinensis – C. analis – C. atrilobata – C. atripectoralis – C. atripes – C. axillaris – C. bami – C. bowesi – C. brevirostris – C. cadenati – C. caerulea – C. caudalis – C. chromis – C. chrysura – C. cinerascens – C. circumaurea – C. crusma – C. cyanea – C. dasygenys – C. degruyi – C. delta – C. dimidiata – C. dispila – C. durvillei – C. earina – C. elerae – C. enchrysura – C. fatuhivae – C. fieldi – C. flavapicis – C. flavaxilla – C. flavicauda – C. flavipectoralis – C. flavomaculata – C. fumea – C. gunting – C. hangganan – C. hanui – C. howsoni – C. hypsilepis – C. insolata – C. intercrusma – C. iomelas – C. jubauna – C. kennensis – C. klunzingeri – C. lepidolepis – C. leucura – C. limbata – C. limbaughi – C. lineata – C. lubbocki – C. margaritifer – C. megalopsis – C. meridiana – C. mirationis – C. monochroma – C. multilineata – C. nigroanalis – C. nigrura – C. nitida – C. notata – C. okamurai – C. onumai – C. opercularis – C. ovalis – C. ovatiformis – C. pamae – C. pelloura – C. pembae – C. planesi – C. punctipinnis – C. pura – C. randalli – C. retrofasciata – C. sanctaehelenae – C. scotochiloptera – C. scotti – C. struhsakeri – C. ternatensis – C. tingting – C. trialpha – C. unipa – C. vanbebberae – C. vanderbilti – C. verater – C. viridis – C. weberi – C. westaustralis – C. woodsi – C. xanthochira – C. xanthopterygia – C. xanthura – C. xouthos – C. xutha – C. yamakawai

Name

Chromis G. Cuvier, 1814

Type species: Sparus chromis Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.
Gender feminine.

Synonymy

Chromis Oken (ex Cuvier), 1817

References

Allen, G.R. & M.V. Erdmann, 2009: Two new species of damselfishes (Pomacentridae: Chromis) from Indonesia. International Journal of Ichthyology 15 (3): 121–134.
Arango, B.G., Pinheiro, H.T., Rocha, C., Greene, B.D., Pyle, R.L., Copus, J.M., Shepherd, B. & Rocha, L.A. 2019. Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. Zookeys, 835: 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.835.27528 Reference page.
Cuvier, G., 1814: Observations et recherches critiques sur différens poissons de la Méditerranée et, à leur occasion, sur des Poissons des autres mers plus ou moins liés avec eux; par M. G. Cuvier. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. 1814: 80–92.
Eschmeyer, W.N., B. Weitbrecht & W.F. Smith-Vaniz 1990: Catalog of the Recent genera of fishes. Opinions and other actions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: 671–697.
McFarland, E.P., Baldwin, C.C., Robertson, D.R., Rocha, L.A. & Tornabene, L. 2020. A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei, Pomacentridae). ZooKeys, 1008: 107–138. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1008.58805 Reference page.
Rocha, L.A., Pinheiro, H.T., Najeeb, A., Rocha, C.R. & Shepherd, B. 2024. Chromis abadhah (Teleostei, Pomacentridae), a new species of damselfish from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Maldives. ZooKeys 1219: 165–174. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.126777 Reference page.
Tea, Y-K., Gill, A.C. & Senou, H. 2019. Chromis tingting, a new species of damselfish from mesophotic coral ecosystems of southern Japan, with notes on C. mirationis Tanaka (Teleostei: Pomacentridae). Zootaxa 4586(2): 249–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4586.2.2 Reference page.

Links

Chromis and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Chromis species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

English: Chromis Fishes