Pholidochromis cerasina Gill & Tanaka, 2004
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Pholidochromis cerasina
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei (teleosts) > Ovalentaria/misc (Various families in series Ovalentaria) > Pseudochromidae (Dottybacks) > Pseudochrominae
Etymology: Pholidochromis: Name from Greek pholis, meaning a scale or spot, chromis a genus of pomacentrid that has been used as the stem of various other fish genera, alludes to the distinctive dark spots around the head pores.
More on authors: Gill & Tanaka.
Etymology: Pholidochromis: Name from Greek pholis, meaning a scale or spot, chromis a genus of pomacentrid that has been used as the stem of various other fish genera, alludes to the distinctive dark spots around the head pores.
More on authors: Gill & Tanaka.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Marine; reef-associated. Tropical
Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri
Western Pacific: Philippines and Indonesia (Ref. 90102).
Size / Weight / Age
Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 22; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 13.
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep; Cross section: compressed.
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep; Cross section: compressed.
Habitat information not available but probably frequents coral crevices and overhangs (Ref 90102).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Main reference
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Gill, A.C. and H. Tanaka, 2004. Pholidochromis cerasina, a new species of pseudochromine dottyback fish from the West Pacific (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 117(1):17-22. (Ref. 79862)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 22 July 2021
CITES
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Internet sources
AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | OneZoom | Open Tree of Life | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | TreeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.7500 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
| Bayesian length-weight | a=0.01995 (0.00906 - 0.04395), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245). |
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Trophic level (Ref. 69278) |
3.4 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
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Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (11 of 100). 🛈 |