Blue Green Chromis
Chromis viridis
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Ovalentaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Chromis
Where to Find
Found in 58 diving areas across 35 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 12 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 12 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 9 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 6 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 15 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 2 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 10 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 18 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 249 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 48 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 191 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 7 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 4 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 4 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 8 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 9 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 4 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 4 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 4 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 4 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 6 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 5 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 3 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 23 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 20 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 54 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 19 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 3 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 46 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 52 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 10 records