Scientific Name: Chromis xanthura
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 15cm
Identification: Dark charcoal-gray to blackish with white tail including base, but not rear dorsal and anal fins.
Favourite: Usually form groups.
Hide-out: Outer reef slopes in 3-40m.
Location: East Indo-Pacific - Cocos-Keeling Is. to Indonesia, Line Is. and Pitcaim Is. east of French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to N.W. and N.E. Australia and New Caledonia.
Pale-Tail Chromis
False Clown Anemonefish
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 9cm
Identification: Orange with 3 white bars, middle bar has forward-projecting bulge; variable amounts of black edging on bars and fins.
Hide-out: Shoreline reefs to 15m.
Location: East Indo-Asian Pacific - Andaman Sea to N.W. Australia, Central Indonesia and Philippines. Rare black variation around Darwin, Australia; brown variation elsewhere.
Indian Half-and-Half Chromis
Scientific Name: Chromis dimidiata
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 7cm
Identification: Dark brown to black head and forebody, white rear body and tail. Distinguished from Pacific Half-and-Half Chromis by location.
Favourite: Solitary or form groups.
Hide-out: Common near shore and on seaward reef slopes in 2-20m.
Location: Indian Ocean - Red Sea, E. Africa and Christmas I. to Sumatra and Java in Indonesia.
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