Regal demoiselle

Characteristics

  • Occurs in small groups and mixed with other damselfishes, rarely observed singly.
  • Females reported to attach eggs on substrates such as boulders, and males will guard and aerate the eggs until hatching.
  • Feeds on plankton.

Description

  • Body is dark brown with a white spot at the end of dorsal fin base.
  • Elongated caudal fin lobes.
  • A blackish spot above the operculum near the origin of the lateral line, which readily distinguishes from the Pearl-spot chromis.
  • Reproductively active males were noted in at least in August and September. Light coloured blotches appear in breeding males.

Common Name: Regal demoiselle

Family Common Name: Damselfishes

Scientific Name: Neopomacentrus cyanomos___(Bleeker, 1856)

Maximum Length: 10 cm (Total Length)

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未評估
Not Evaluated (ne)
數據缺乏
Data Deficient (dd)
無危
Least Concern (lc)
近危
Near Threatened (nt)
易危
Vulnerable (vu)
瀕危
Endangered (en)
極危
Critically Endangered (cr)
絕滅
Extinct (ex)
Regal demoiselle