POMACENTRIDAE


Lepidozygus tapeinosoma, 4.9 cm SL
(photo by Richard Winterbottom)


Lepidozygus tapeinosoma
(Bleeker, 1856)
Fusiler Damsel

D XII, 14-15; A II, 15-16; P1 21-22; LLp 19-20.

Body relatively slender, compressed. Posterior margin of preopercle serrate. Ventral margin of suborbital concealed by scales. A series of papilla-like structures along inner margin of posterior part of orbit. Teeth on jaws uniserial, incisor-like. Caudal fin deeply forked, with no conspicuous projecting spine-like rays at upper and lower edges of caudal-fin base. Color: head and body dark green or yellowish dorsally, pale and tinged with pink or blue ventrally. Size: 7.0 cm SL. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Remarks: found in coral reefs; feeds plankton in aggregation.