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Damsels, Damsel Identification, Damsel Selection, Damsel
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Chrysiptera
Damsels
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By Bob Fenner |
A Chrysiptera cyanea
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Includes the genera Glyphidodontops and Paraglyphidodon
Aquarium Species of Chrysiptera of Interest:
| Chrysiptera biocellata (Quoy & Gaimard 1825), the
Twinspot Damsel, Twospot Demoiselle... Indo-west Pacific, Africa's east
coast out to Samoa. To three inches in length. Offered in the trade from
time to time. Can be feisty toward other tankmates... should be kept with
tough fishes only. Pictured is an adult (2") in the Maldives. |
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| Chrysiptera bleekeri (Fowler & Bean 1928),
Bleeker's Damsel. Western Central Pacific; Timor, Flores (and this report
of Lombok), Indonesia and the Philippines. To about three inches in
length. Photos made off of Gili Air and N. Sulawesi, Indonesia. |
 
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| Chrysiptera brownriggii
(Bennett 1828), a Surge Demoiselle. Indo-West Pacific; Maldives, Sri
Lanka to Cook Islands. To 7.5 cm. total length. Lives in shallow surgy
zones independently but in association with others of its species,
feeding on algae and small crustaceans. Photo taken of an adult in
Singapore National Aquarium. |
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| Chrysiptera cyanea (Quoy & Gaimard 1825), the
Blue Devil/Damsel. Likely the most commonly used member of the Damsel
family by the aquarium interest. Western Pacific over to the bare eastern
edge of the Indian Ocean. To two and a half inches in length.
Variably blue with some orange yellow on fins. Aquarium specimens shown
below. |
| Chrysiptera galba Allen & Randall 1974, the
Canary Demoiselle. South Central Pacific. To two and a half inches in
length. A beauty that should be imported more frequently. The first one in an
aquarium, the second the Cooks. |
 
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| Chrysiptera hemicyanea (Weber 1913), the Azure
Demoiselle. 7 cm.. Indo-West Pacific; Eastern Indian Ocean, Indonesia. Aquarium
image. |
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| Chrysiptera parasema (Fowler 1918), the Yellow-Tail
Blue Damsel. Contending for first place as "most used member of the
family of Damselfishes". From the western Pacific. To two and a half
inches. Hardy and relatively easygoing. One in an aquarium, another
in N. Sulawesi by RMF and another aquarium shot by Hiroyuki Tanaka. |
| Chrysiptera rollandi (Whitley 1961), Rolland's Demoiselle. Indo-Australia Archipelago. To a mere one and three quarters
inch in length. In Pulau Redang, Malaysia, and N. Sulawesi. |
 
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| Chrysiptera starcki (Allen 1973), Starck's
Demoiselle. Western Pacific; Noumea to Queensland to Japan. To nearly two
and a half inches. A beautiful reef-associated Damsel, best kept one to a
tank. Aquarium photo. |
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| Chrysiptera talboti (Allen 1975), Talbot's Damsel.
Indo-West Pacific. To about two inches maximum length. A great little
Damsel for reef aquariums. Regularly
collected for the ornamental trade in Fiji. Australian, Fiji and N.
Sulawesi images. |
| Chrysiptera taupou (Jordan & Seale 1906), the
Village Belle or South Seas Devil. Southwestern Pacific Ocean. A great
beauty and relatively non-aggressive. A very nice addition as an
individual specimen to reef aquariums; where this one was photographed. To
two and a half inches in length. |
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| Chrysiptera unimaculata (Cuvier 1830), the One spot Demoiselle. Indo-west Pacific, Red Sea. Highly variable in markings,
color, from east coast of Africa to Fiji. This juvenile and sub-adult in
the Maldives. To three inches overall in length. Imported as juveniles
that turn overall brownish with age. |
 
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
Allen, Gerald R. 1973. Chromis
bitaeniatus Fowler and Bean, the juvenile of Abudefduf behni (Bleeker). TFH
5/73.
Allen, Gerald R. 1975. Damselfishes of the
South Seas. TFH Publications, Neptune City, N.J.
Allen, Gerald R. 1991. Damselfishes of the
World. Aquarium Systems, Mentor, Ohio.
American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists, 1978. The Biology of the Damselfishes a symposium held during the 56th
annual meeting of the ASIH. Rosentiel School of Mar. & Atm. Sci. U. of Miami, 1980,
145-328.
Axelrod, H.R. & Warren E. Burgess.
1981. Damselfishes and Anemonefishes. TFH 9/81.
Emmens, C.W. 1984. Damselfishes. TFH 9/84.
Fenner, Bob. 1989. Successfully selling the popular marines.
Pets Supplies Marketing 1/89.
Fenner, Bob & Cindi Camp, 1991.
Damselfishes, saltwater bread and butter. FAMA 10/91.
Fenner, Robert. 1998. The Conscientious Marine Aquarist.
Microcosm, VT. 432pp.
Fenner, Robert. 1999. The indomitable damsels- Family
Pomacentridae. TFH 1/99.
Flood, A. Colin. 1992. Thos darling
damsels. TFH 8/92.
Gronell, A.M., 1984. Look-alike damsels.
TFH 32(8) 48-53.
Thresher, R.E., P.L. Colin & Lori J.
Bell. 1989. Planktonic duration, distribution and population structure of western and
central Pacific damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Copeia 1989(2), pp. 420-434.
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