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Updated 12/14/2023

Family Pomacentridae

WEST PACIFIC

Chromis xanthura

Banda Sea, Indonesia

 

Poloa, American Samoa, 30 feet



Juvenile, Savusavu Bay, Fiji, 6 feet

Juvenile, Poloa, American Samoa, 30 feet

 



Beqa, Fiji, 15 feet



Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 30 feet


Juvenile, Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 15 feet
   

 PALETAIL CHROMIS

Common along current-swept dropoffs at scuba depth.  Steel gray with dark scale margins, two dark bars on gill cover, caudal peduncle and fin in adults white or gray, yellow in juveniles.  Attains 7 inches.  Indonesia to Okinawa, east to French Polynesia, excluding Hawai'i.