Chromis scotti

The purple reeffish (Chromis scotti) is a species of fish in the family Pomacentridae. It occurs from southern Florida through the Caribbean Sea to northern Brazil.[2] The specific name honours William Beverly Scott (1917-2014) who was the Curator of Ichthyology and Herpetology ate the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.[3]

Chromis scotti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pomacentridae
Genus: Chromis
Species:
C. scotti
Binomial name
Chromis scotti
Emery, 1968

References
  1. Rocha, L.A. & Myers, R. (2015). "Chromis scotti". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T188469A1879814. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T188469A1879814.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Chromis scotti" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (29 August 2018). "Subseries OVALENTARIA (Incertae sedis): Family POMACENTRIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 September 2018.


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