Chromis

Damselfish ( Chromis chromis )

Chromis is the most diverse genus of damselfish (Pomacentridae ). In German, the fish are referred to as Schwalbenschwänzchen. The school of fish live in tropical and subtropical coral and rocky reefs of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific the. They prefer reefs that are exposed to periodic strong currents. The damselfish ( Chromis chromis ), who lives in the Mediterranean, the Black and Azov Sea and in the Atlantic from Lisbon to the coast of Morocco, is a long time the only species in European waters.

Together with the Anthias Chromis include swarms to the characteristic picture of Außenriffhänge. Like almost all damselfish Chromis species inhabit the upper 15 to 20 meters of the water column. However, when Zooplanktonfresser you will find in deeper zones food. C. amboinensis, C. alpha, C. axillaris, C. delta, C. mirationis, and C. retrofasciata be, besides just three other Riffbarscharten well below 60 meters encountered. C. abyssicola, C. leucura, C. struhsakeri, C. and C. Woodside verater even still occur below 100 meters.

System

According to phylogenetic studies, the genus is not monophyletic but consists of three clades of the one belonging to the most hochrückige species, the sister group of Dascyllus and contains another genus Azurina.

The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic relationships again:

I Chromis (including C. abyssus, C. alpha, C. alta, C. analis, C. atripectoralis, C. cadenati, C. caerulea, C. caudalis, C. chromis, C. chrysura, C. circumaurea, C. flavomaculata, C. fumea, C. insolata, C. nitida, C. opercularis, C. punctipinnis, C. ternatensis, C. viridis, C. weberi, C. Woodside, C. xanthochira, C. xanthopterygia, C. xanthura )

Chromis II ( Azurina, C. acares, C. atrilobata, C. brevirostris, C. cyanea, C. multilineata )

Chromis III (C. agilis, C. amboinensis, C. atripes, C. iomelas, C. margaritifer, C. ovatiformis, C. retrofasciata )

Dascyllus

Species

There are over 90 types:

  • Chromis abrupta Randall, 2001
  • Chromis abyssicola Allen & Randall, 1985
  • Chromis abyssus Pyle et al., 2008
  • Chromis acares Randall & Swerdloff, 1973
  • Chromis agilis Smith, 1960
  • Chromis albomaculata Mr. Kamohara, 1960
  • Chromis alleni Randall, Ida & Moyer, 1981
  • Chromis alpha Randall, 1988
  • Chromis alta Greenfield & Woods, 1980
  • Chromis amboinensis ( Bleeker, 1873)
  • Chromis analis ( Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
  • Chromis atrilobata Gill, 1862
  • Black armpit Schwalbenschwänzchen ( Chromis atripectoralis ) Welander & Schultz, 1951
  • Chromis atripes Fowler & Bean, 1928
  • Chromis axillaris ( Bennett, 1831)
  • Chromis bami Randall & McCosker, 1992
  • Chromis brevirostris Pyle et al., 2008
  • Chromis cadenati Whitley, 1951
  • Chromis caerulea ( Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
  • Chromis caudalis Randall, 1988
  • Damselfish ( Chromis chromis ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Chromis chrysura ( Bliss, 1883) ( Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
  • Chromis circumaurea Pyle et al., 2008
  • Chromis crusma ( Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1833)
  • Blue Schwalbenschwänzchen ( Chromis cyanea ) ( Poey, 1860)
  • Chromis dasygenys ( Fowler, 1935)
  • Chromis degruyi Pyle et al., 2008
  • Chromis delta Randall, 1988
  • Two-color damselfish ( Chromis dimidiata ) ( Klunzinger, 1871)
  • Chromis dispilus Griffin, 1923
  • Chromis earina Pyle et al., 2008
  • Chromis elerae Fowler & Bean, 1928
  • Chromis enchrysura Jordan & Gilbert, 1882
  • Chromis fatuhivae Randall, 2001
  • Chromis fieldi Randall & DiBattista, 2013
  • Chromis flavapicis Randall, 2001
  • Chromis flavaxilla Randall, 1994
  • Chromis flavicauda ( Günther, 1880)
  • Chromis flavipectoralis Randall, 1988
  • Chromis flavomaculata Mr. Kamohara, 1960
  • Chromis fumea ( Tanaka, 1917)
  • Chromis hanui Randall & Swerdloff, 1973
  • Chromis hypsilepis ( Günther, 1867)
  • Chromis insolata ( Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
  • Chromis intercrusma Evermann & Radcliff, 1917
  • Chromis iomelas Jordan & Seale, 1906
  • Chromis jubauna Moura, 1995
  • Chromis klunzingeri Whitley, 1929
  • Chromis lepidolepis Bleeker, 1877
  • Chromis leucura Gilbert, 1905
  • Chromis limbata ( Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
  • Chromis limbaughi Greenfield & Woods, 1980
  • Chromis lineata Fowler & Bean, 1928
  • Chromis lubbocki Edwards, 1986
  • Chromis margaritifer Fowler, 1946
  • Chromis meridiana Greenfield & Woods, 1980
  • Chromis mirationis Tanaka, 1917
  • Chromis multilineata ( Guichenot, 1853)
  • Chromis nigroanalis Randall, 1988
  • Chromis nigrura Smith, 1960
  • Chromis nitida ( Whitley, 1928)
  • Chromis notata ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
  • Chromis okamurai Yamakawa & Randall, 1989
  • Chromis opercularis ( Günther in Playfair & Günther, 1867)
  • Chromis ovalis ( Steindachner, 1900)
  • Chromis ovatiformis Fowler, 1946
  • Chromis pamae Randall & McCosker, 1992
  • Chromis pelloura Randall & Allen, 1982
  • Chromis pembae Smith, 1960
  • Chromis punctipinnis ( Cooper, 1863)
  • Chromis edge Alli Greenfield & Hensley, 1970
  • Chromis retrofasciata Weber, 1913
  • Chromis sanctaehelenae Edwards in Edwards & Glass, 1987
  • Chromis scotochiloptera Fowler, 1918
  • Chromis scotti Emery, 1968
  • Chromis struhsakeri Randall & Swerdloff, 1973
  • Chromis ternatensis ( Bleeker, 1856)
  • Chromis triacantha Bowdich, 1825
  • Chromis TriAlpha Allen & Randall, 1980
  • Chromis vanderbilti ( Fowler, 1941)
  • Chromis verater Jordan & Metz, 1912
  • Chromis cinerascens
  • Green Schwalbenschwänzchen ( Chromis viridis ) ( Cuvier, 1830)
  • Chromis weberi Fowler & Bean, 1928
  • Chromis westaustralis Allen, 1976
  • Chromis Woodside Bruner & Arnam, 1979
  • Chromis xanthochira ( Bleeker, 1851)
  • Chromis xanthopterygia Randall & McCarthy, 1988
  • Chromis xanthura ( Bleeker, 1854)
  • Chromis xutha Randall, 1988
  • Chromis yamakawai Iwatsubo & Motomura, 2013
Sea of Azov Digital Object Identifier FishBase
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