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scissortail chromis
Chromis atrilobata Gill, 1862
Also calledCastañeta (spa) · castañeta cola de tijera (spa) · Castañeta conguita (spa) · Juniche (spa) · Sergent ciseaux (fra)
First described in: Gill, T. N. 1862. Catalogue of the fishes of lower California in the Smithsonian Institution, collected by Mr. J. Xantus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14(3-4): 140-151.
Azurina atrilobata, commonly known as the scissortail damselfish, is a species of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae. It can be found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to northern Peru, including the Galapagos Islands and the Cocos Islands. It inhabits coral and rocky reefs. It aggregates in large numbers in open water above reefs. It feeds on zooplankton. It is not strongly territorial. In the darkness of deep water, it becomes invisible save for its post-dorsal white spot, giving the illusion of glowing in the dark. It is oviparous, and the males of the species guard and aerate the eggs.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Scissortail Chromis or Scissortail Damselfish. To about 13.4 cm (5.3 in) TL (Balart et al. 2006). Isla Guadalupe (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Isla de Cedros and Islas San Benito (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015), central Baja California and (mainland) Rocas Chester (27 ° 53 ’ N, 115 ° 47 ’ W) (M. L., unpubl. data) to Pucusana, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Schneider and Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Intertidal to 80 m (262 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Schneider and Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995).
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