POMACENTRIDAE Chromis flavipectoralis, 5.5 cm SL (photo by Richard Winterbottom) Chromis flavipectoralis Randall, 1988 Malayan Chromis D XII, 11-13; A II, 11-13; P1 15-17; LLp 11-14. 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; two conspicuous projecting spine-like rays at upper and lower edges of caudal-fin base. Color: head and body dark grayish brown, paler ventrally, abruptly white posterior to a demarcation slightly anterior to caudal peduncle; posterior part of dorsal fin and pelvic, anal and caudal fins white; base and axil of pectoral fin yellow. Size: 5.5 cm SL. Distribution: Indian Ocean, Andaman Sea and western Indonesia (Java and Sumatra). Remarks: found in shallow coral reefs.