Ambon chromis

Scientific name : Chromis amboinensis

Small light brown chromis, with soft parts of dorsal and anal fins fading in dark. Black stripes on the upper and lower parts of the caudal fin. An orange marking at the armpit of pectoral fin. The tail ends with tiny filaments. Blue eye. 7 cm. A Plankton feeder, lives in shoals. This is part of a group of small chromis species, sometimes difficult to identify. The group includes (amongst the species described here) Chromis atripes, C. amboinensis, Chromis lepidolepis, Chromis elerae, Chromis ternatensis, Chromis weberi. A good system to distinguish between them, is to look carefully at the spots on the fins and at the eye's colour.
C. amboinensis is very similar to C. atripes, well distinguished by the eye colour