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GBIF·5212280speciesAnimalia8,950 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyPomacentridae
  5. ›genusChromis
Chromis acares
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Midget Chromis

Chromis acares Randall & Swerdloff, 1973

Also called'atoti (tah) · Chromis nain (fra) · コビトスズメダイ (jpn)

First described in: Randall, John E. & Stanley N. Swerdloff. 1973. A review of the damselfish genus Chromis from the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of three new species. Pacific Science 27(4): 327-349.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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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

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Every page naming Chromis acares in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212280.