Weber's chromis

Scientific name : Chromis weberi

Grey chromis, with both tail's lobe black tipped and vertical black line on the gill operculum. White eye with black bar. 12 cm. Encountered in shoals along the reef front and external reef. It feeds on Plankton. 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.