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Created 5/18/2019

Family Pomacentridae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC

Chrysiptera brownriggii 



Juvenile, Paradise Taveuni, 4 feet



Kuata, Fiji, 3 feet
 
   

SURGE DAMSEL

Common in shallow water exposed to surge.  Yellow form has black mark on upper caudal fin, brown form has yellow bar on gill cover.  Attains 3 inches.  The Pacific population known as Chrysiptera leucopoma is a synonym.  East Africa to Okinawa and French Polynesia, excluding Hawai'i.