Chromis ternatensis

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Damselfishes ; Schools above branching corals along upper margins of clear lagoon and outer reef slopes . Often associated with branching Acropora .

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

May be found at depths of 2 to 36 meters.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,737 meters (0 to -22,103 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Migration

Non-migratory.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Chromis caeruleus (Cuvier • Chromis coeruleus (Cuvier • Chromis philippinus Fowler • Chromis ternatense • Chromis ternatense (Bleeker • Chromis ternatense (Bleeker, 1856) • Chromis ternatensis • Heliases caeruleus Cuvier • Heliases ternatensis • Heliases ternatensis Bleeker • Heliases ternatensis Bleeker, 1856

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Bleeker, P. Reis Minahassa 1: 278, 1856.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 07-Feb-1997

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chromis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 119 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. abyssicola (Deepsea Chromis) · C. abyssus (Deep Blue Chromis) · C. acares (Midget Chromis) · C. acuticeps (White-Spotted Chromis) · C. agilis (Bronze Reef Chromis) · C. albomaculata (White-Spotted Chromis) · C. alleni (Allen's Chromis) · C. alpha (Yellow-Speckled Chromis) · C. alta (Silverstripe Chromis) · C. amboinensis (Ambon Chromis) · C. analis (Yellow Chromis) · C. atrilobata (Scissortail Damselfish) · C. atripectoralis (Black-Axil Chromis) · C. atripes (Dark-Fin Chromis) · C. auratus (Turquoise-Gold Cichlid) · C. aureus (Jordan St. Peter's Fish) · C. axillaris (Grey Chromis) · C. azurelineatus (Azure Damsel) · C. brasiliensis (Pearl Eartheater) · C. brevirostris (Shortsnout Chromis) · C. buttikoferi (Stout-Body Chromis) · C. cadenati (Cadenat's Chromis) · C. caerulea (Blue Puller) · C. ternatensis (Blue-Green Chromis) · C. caudalis (Blue-Axil Chromis) · C. chromis (Mediterranean Chromis) · C. chrysura (Stout-Body Chromis) · C. cinerascens (Peppered Chromis) · C. circumaurea (Gold-Rim Chromis) · C. coeruleus (Blue-Green Chromis) · C. crusma (Valparaiso Chromis) · C. cyanea (Blue Chromis) · C. cyaneus (Blue Chromis) · C. dasygenys (Blue-Spotted Chromis) · C. degruyi (Degruy) · C. delta (Deep-Reef Chromis) · C. diagramma (Half and Half Puller) · C. dimidiata (Chocolate Dip Damselfish) · C. margaritifer (Half-And-Half Chromis) · C. dimidiatus margaritifer (Half and Half Puller) · C. dispilus (Demoiselle) · C. earina (Spring Chromis) · C. elerae (Twin-Spot Chromis) · C. enchrysura (Yellowtail Reeffish) · C. enchrysurus (Yellowtail Reeffish) · C. facetus (White Convict Cichlid) · C. fenestrata (Yellow-Spotted Chromis) · C. flavaxilla (Arabian Carpet Shark) · C. flavicauda (Yellowfin Chromis) · C. flavipectoralis (Yellow-Axil Chromis) · C. flavomaculata (Yellow-Spotted Chromis) · C. fumea (Yellow Demoiselle) · C. guineensis (Guinean Tilapia) · C. hanui (Hawaiian Bicolor Chromis) · C. heudelotii (Hore's Haplo) · C. hypsilepis (One Spot Demoiselle) · C. insolata (Sunshine Chromis) · C. insolatus (Sunshine Chromis) · C. intercrusma (Peruvian Chromis) · C. iomelas (Half-And-Half Chromis) · C. isomelas (Half-And-Half Chromis) · C. jallae (Kenn Reef Chromis) · C. klunzingeri (Black-Headed Chromis) · C. lepidolepis (Scaly Chromis) · C. leucura (White-Tailed Chromis) · C. limbata (Azores Chromis) · C. limbaughi (Blue- And- Yellow Chromis) · C. lineata (Lined Chromis) · C. cadenati (Lined Chromis) · C. lubbocki (Lubbock's Chromis) · C. margaritifer (Half-And-Half Puller) · C. megalopsis (Bigeye Chromis) · C. meridiana (Southern Chromis) · C. mieationis (False Thornback Skate) · C. mirationis (Bigeye Chromis) · C. multicolor (Dwarf Victoria Mouthbrooder) · C. multilineata (Yellow-Edge Chromis) · C. multilineatus (Yellow-Edge Chromis) · C. nebulifera (Blacktail Chromis) · C. nigroanalis (Kenyan Chromis) · C. nigrura (Blacktail Chromis) · C. nitida (Barrier Reef Chromis) · C. notata (Whitesaddled Reeffish) · C. notata notata (Whitesaddled Reeffish) · C. notatus notatus (Whitesaddled Reeffish) · C. okamurai (Okinawa Chromis) · C. opercularis (Doublebar Reeffish) · C. ovalis (Blue Damsel) · C. ovatiformis (Ovate Chromis) · C. pelloura (Duskytail Chromis) · C. pembae (Yellow-Edge Chromis) · C. philander (Southern Mouthbrooder) · C. punctipinnis (Blacksmith Chromis) · C. randalli (Randall´s Chromis) · C. rendalli (Northern Redbreast Bream) · C. retrofasciata (Black-Bar Chromis) · C. retrofasciatus (Black-Bar Chromis) · C. rivulata (Rolland's Demoiselle) · C. sanctaehelenae (Bastard Cavalley Pilot) · C. scotochiloptera (Scissors-Tail Puller)

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Further Reading

• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 166, p. 46.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 31, p. 508, p. 78.
• Check-list of species of fishes known from the PhilippineArchipelago, by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1910. url p. 29, p. 3, p. 32, p. 33.
• Fishes of the Crane Pacific expedition, by Albert W. Herre. 21 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 18, p. 20, p. 272.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 19.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 1168, p. 255, p. 474.
• The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url , p. 205, p. 213, p. 248, p. 249, p. 5, p. 5.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 303.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 130, p. 204, p. 205.

Notes

Contributors

• Allen, Gerald R. (from FishBase).
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Accessed March 03, 2006. www.iobis.org
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: AIMS LTM Fish (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bishop Museum Data (OBIS distribution) (USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 123980
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-25754
• Fishbase Species ID: 5677
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13541513
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 170113
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 107149

Footnotes

1. Mean = -1,023.600 meters (-3,358.268 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,344.860 based on 640 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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