Stout-body chromis
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Stout-body chromis is also eaten as food in Okinawa and Amami Oshima.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Stout-body chromis
- Scientific name
- Chromis chrysura
- Japanese name
- アマミスズメダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Chromis
A fish whose range is split by the equator: southern Japan and Taiwan in the north, and places such as eastern Australia and Fiji in the south.
Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, northeastern and eastern Australia, Fiji Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Stout-body chromis has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アマミスズメダイ
- 简体中文
- 短身光鳃雀鲷
- 繁體中文
- 短身光鰓魚
- Español
- Castañuela de Cola Blanca
- Français
- Chromis à queue blanche
- Português (Brasil)
- Donzela-robusta
- Italiano
- Castagnola robusta
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アマミスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-04
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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