Photo: MDC SeaMarc Maldives · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 9 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, branching corals
The blue-green chromis forms large shimmering schools above the branches of corals, to feed on plankton. It dives into the coral at the slightest danger.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is called ʻatoti.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Chromis bleu-vert.
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