General Information

COMMON NAMES: Weber's Chromis; French Chromis de Weber GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa -Pitcairn; n to s.Japan; s to New Caledonia COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore,; channels and seaward reefs to 25m KEY FEATURES: A deeply forked-tail damsel to 12cm SL. Uniform olive to grey body, with dark bar behind eye, dark Pectoral joint, and dark tail-tips. Dark edged scales form a dark network on body.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
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Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Chromis weberi Fowler & Bean, 1928
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; POMACENTRIDAE, Chrominae

IDENTIFICATION: 12cm SL. Body olive to grey with dark-edged scales forming a latticework, lower sides may have faint yellow stripes; a dark brown bar behind the eye; and Pectoral-jpint is dark. Tail deeply forked, tips black.

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldsight, 2 fish, outer reef slope at 12m, north coast e.of Avatiu (Mataora wreck), 10/2001, Mataora, ID M.Francis.

References:
text p.167 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 77D Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.261 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.386 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 78-09 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 64-12 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM06a, zD02

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