Darkfin Puller, Chromis atripes Fowler & Bean 1928
Other Names: Darkfin Chromis, Dark-fin Chromis, Dusky Puller
A Darkfin Puller, Chromis atripes, at Karunju Island, Solomon Islands, April 2019. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
A small orange-brown damselfish with a faint bluish to lavender sheen on the lower head and chest, a large eye with a black vertical bar and a yellow iris, a wedge-shaped black spot on the pectoral-fin base, and blackish upper and lower caudal-fin rays.
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Bray, D.J. 2020, Chromis atripes in Fishes of Australia, accessed 10 Sep 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/2311
Darkfin Puller, Chromis atripes Fowler & Bean 1928
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Distribution |
Offshore reefs of north Western Australia, Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea, and the far northern Great Barrier Reef and reefs in the Coral Sea, to the Capricorn-Bunker Group, Queensland; also Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean, and the Lord Howe Province in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, east-Indo-west-central Pacific: Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Indonesia, east to the Marshall Islands and Fiji, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Individuals or small groups inhabit steep outer reef slopes, drop-offs and deeper patch reefs at depths to 35 m. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin XII, 12-14; Anal fin II, 12-13; Pectoral fin 15-17; Lateral line scales 14-16; Gill rakers 24-29. Body depth 1.7-2.0 in SL. |
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Feeding |
Feeds on zooplankton. |
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Etymology |
The specific name atripes is from the Latin ater (= black) and pes (= foot) in reference to the black marking on the pectoral-fin base. |
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Species Citation |
Chromis atripes Fowler & Bean 1928, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(7): 43, pl. 2. Type locality: Philippines. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2020 |
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Resources |
Darkfin Puller, Chromis atripes Fowler & Bean 1928
References
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