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Blue-axil Chromis
Chromis caudalis Randall, 1988
Pycnochromis caudalis, the blue-axil chromis, is a diurnal species of damselfish belonging to the genus Chromis. It can be found in the Western Pacific Ocean and the Eastern Indian Ocean from Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Indonesia and the Solomon Islands, north to the Philippines, including Vietnam, the Cocos Islands, Brunei Darussalam, East Timor and Papua New Guinea. It can also be found in Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, Palau and Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands. It inhabits ledges and bases of small caves outside steep outer reef slopes. It is oviparous, and the males of the species guard and aerate the eggs.
== References ==
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: Christmas Island and Indonesia east to Marshall, Phoenix and Line islands, north to Philippines, south to Papua New Guinea. Found on steep seaward reef slopes, 20 – 50 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 2 June 2013, first dive, during ACIAR Aquarium Survey at Kavieng; others photographed at St. KVG 23 (east side of Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 21 Aug. 2014.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Chromis caudalis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212199.