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Blue Chromis

Chromis cyanea

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Description:

Photo take a t -40 ft in a Caribbean reef. Blue Chromis are very common in all the Caribbean, small fish shape about 8-10 cm long They are a brilliant blue color with a black outline along the bottom of the dorsal fin and around the caudal fin. One of the most colorful fish in the reef.

Habitat:

Inhabitant of the Coral Reef usually find on top of hard corals as lettuce coral
where they can hide small groups.
From Florida all the Caribbean sea to Brazil.

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