Twin spot chromis

Scientific name : Chromis elerae

Grey chromis, with twin white spots on the soft parts of dorsal and anal fins. 7 cm. A rare species, encountered normally in small shoals along the deep reef, close to the entrance of caves or around shipwrecks. A Plankton feeder. This is part of a group of small chromis species, sometimes difficult to identify. The group includes (amongst the species described here) Chromis atripes, Chromis 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.