One-spot puller

One-spot puller
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Family:Pomacentridae
Genus:Chromis
Species: C. hypsilepis
Binomial name
Chromis hypsilepis
(Günther, 1867)

The one-spot puller (in New Zealand) or brown puller (in Australia), Chromis hypsilepis, is a damselfish of the genus Chromis, found off south-east Australia and between North Cape and East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand to depths of about 60 metres, off rocky coasts. It grows to a length between 15 and 20 centimetres.

References

  1. Carpenter, K.E.; Yeeting, B. & Jenkins, A. (2017). "Chromis hypsilepis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T188369A1865215. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  • "Chromis hypsilepis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 March 2006.
  • Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Chromis hypsilepis" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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