''Chromis insolata'' is a species of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% ...
in the family
Pomacentridae
Pomacentridae is a family of ray-finned fish, comprising the damselfishes and clownfishes. This family were formerly placed in the order Perciformes but are now regarded as being ''incertae sedis'' in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade ...
. It is commonly known as the sunshinefish, and found in the Western
Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...
. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 16 cm in length.
References
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* http://www.ibiologia.unam.mx/links/peces/fao/WCAidSheets/Vol%203/y4162e38.pdf
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insolata
Fish described in 1830
Taxa named by Georges Cuvier
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