Neopomacentrus cyanomos

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Neopomacentrus cyanomos
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Pomacentridae
Genus: Neopomacentrus
Species:
N. cyanomos
Binomial name
Neopomacentrus cyanomos
(Bleeker, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Pomacentrus cyanomosBleeker, 1856
  • Pomacentrus leucosphyrus Fowler, 1904
  • Pomacentrus prateriFowler, 1928

Neopomacentrus cyanomos, commonly known as the regal demoiselle, is a fish native to the Indo-Pacific region from the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the coastal waters of east Africa east to the Philippines, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and Melanesia. [2] It has also been found as an invasive species in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula, although how they arrived there is unknown. [3]

References

  1. Allen, G.R.; Arceo, H.; Mutia, M.T.M.; Muyot, F.B.; Nañola, C.L.; Santos, M. (2022). "Neopomacentrus cyanomos". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022 e.T188459A1878043. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T188459A1878043.en . Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Neopomacentrus cyanomos". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  3. D. Ross Robertson; Nuno Simoes; Carla Guitérrez Rodriguéz; Victor J. Piñeros & Horacio Perez=España (2016). "An Indo-Pacific damselfish well established in the southern Gulf of Mexico: prospects for a wider, adverse invasion" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 19: 1–17.