POMACENTRIDAE


Chrysiptera biocellata, 7.5 cm SL
(from Palau; photo by Seishi Kimura)


Chrysiptera biocellata
(Quoy and Gaimard, 1825)
Twospot Demoiselle

D XIII, 12-14; A II, 13-14; P1 17-19; LLp 16-18.

Body ovate, compressed. Posterior margin of preopercle smooth. Suborbital naked, with entire ventral free margin. Teeth on jaws biserial, those in outer row incisor-like. Caudal fin emarginated; no conspicuous projecting spine-like rays at upper and lower edges of caudal-fin base. Color: ground color drab, olive gray or greenish gray, with a white vertical bar on middle of trunk; two black spots on posterior part of dorsal-fin base; the posterior black spot, followed by smaller pale spot, at posterior end of dorsal-fin base; juvenile yellowish ventrally, lacking white bar on side, with a narrow bright blue stripe on dusky back from snout to front of anterior black spot (encircled by narrow bright blue) on dorsal-fin base. Size: 8.0 cm SL. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. Remarks: found in shallow lagoons and inner reefs with rubbles.