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Updated 12/14/2023

Family Pomacentridae

TROPICAL PACIFIC / HAWAII

Pycnochromis acares



Mo'orea, 50 feet

Poloa, American Samoa, 30 feet

 

West Hawaii


Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 20 feet

Wake Island
   

MIDGET CHROMIS

Common near coral outcrops along outer reefs, rare in Hawaii.  The yellow lower tail lobe distinguishes it from the Blackfin Chromis, Pycnochromis vanderbilti.  Attains 2 inches.  Okinawa to Hawaii and French Polynesia.  Formerly known as Chromis acares.