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Chromis

WoRMS 126045ITIS 170079GBIF 5962165key worms:126045
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170079 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Corrine Avidan · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chromis viridis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Chromis
Photo · Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia · Public domain · commons

Chromis is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae. While the term damselfish describes a group of marine fish including more than one genus, Chromis is the largest genus of damselfishes.W CalCOFI holds 1,148 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

1,148
observations
1,148
records
2
sampling events
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 2 obs · 2 events · 2003–2006 · larva
    name used: Chromis · code 1815

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:126045%22