blue chromis

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 About "blue chromis"

📍Kingdom:- Animalia

📍Phylum:- Chordata

📍Class:- Actinopterygii

📍Family:- Pomacentridae

📍Genus:- Chromis

📍Species:- C. cyanea

📍Binomial name:- Chromis cyanea

👉Chromis cyanea (blue chromis) is a damselfish in the subfamily Pomacentrinae,found in Bermuda, southern Florida and the Caribbean Sea.

👉Being a shallow water fish, the blue chromis is commonly found at depths of 3 to 5 m, but it can reach depths of 25 m below sea level.

👉It's also been recorded at a depth of 60 m below sea level.

👉It lives on the surface of reefs, but often swims in the water columns above the reefs to feed on plankton.

👉The blue chromis is largely collected for use in aquariums.

👉There are no reliable numbers on the extent of this collecting, but damselfish make up the most intensely collected fish group, making up almost half of the aquarium trade.

#aquarium #study #fishlib #ornamentalfish #biodiversity #ocean #sealife #biology

📷:- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromis_cyanea

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