Azurina cyanea Blue chromis

Azurina cyanea is commonly referred to as Blue chromis. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

117 

AphiaID:

1565681 

Scientific:

Azurina cyanea 

German:

Blaues Schwalbenschwänzchen 

English:

Blue Chromis 

Category:

Damselfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopteri (Class) > Ovalentaria incertae sedis (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Azurina (Genus) > cyanea (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Poey, ), 1860 

Occurrence:

Guadeloupe, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

3 - 60 Meter 

Size:

2.76" - 3.54" (7cm - 9cm) 

Temperature:

75.2 °F - 78.8 °F (24°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Brine Shrimps, Cyclops, Flakes, Frozen Food (large sort), Krill, Lobster eggs, Mysis 

Tank:

109.99 gal (~ 500L)  

Difficulty:

Average 

Offspring:

Possible to breed 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Azurina eupalama
  Galapagos-Riffbarsch
• 
  Azurina hirundo
  Schwalben-Riffbarsch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Azurina atrilobata
  Schwalbenschwänzchen
• 
  Azurina brevirostris
  Riffbarsch
• 
  Azurina cyanea
  Blaues Schwalbenschwänzchen
• 
  Azurina elerae
  Zweipunkt-Chromis
• 
  Azurina lepidolepis
  Riffbarsch, Demoiselle

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2004-08-22 12:21:58 

Last edit:

2022-02-24 10:43:56 

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