POMACENTRIDAE Chromis cinerascens, 7.5 cm SL (photo by Richard Winterbottom) Chromis cinerascens (Cuvier, 1830) Green Chromis D XIII, 11-12; A II, 11-12; P1 19; LLp 18-20. Body deep and compressed. Posterior margin of preopercle smooth. Suborbital scaled, with entire ventral edge. Teeth on jaws conical, muliserial; teeth of outermost row larger than those of inner rows. Caudal fin forked; some conspicuous projecting spinelike rays at upper and lower edges of caudal-fin base. Color: head and body gray or dark gray brown dorsally, paler and tinged with gold ventrally; pelvic and anal fins whitish. Size: 10.0 cm SL. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. Remarks: found in shallow silty costal reefs, forming aggregation.