Ternate chromis
Chromis ternatensis
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Ternate chromis
- Scientific
- Chromis ternatensis
- Dhivehi
- ލޮނު ލުބޯLonu luboa
- Group
- Reef fish
- Maximum size
- Up to about 10 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 0 to 80 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2021
Description
A small, olive-green to brownish chromis with a silvery belly and dark edges to the forked tail lobes. It forms schools above branching corals along the upper edges of lagoon and outer reef slopes, feeding on plankton.
In the Maldives
Dhivehi Wikipedia (MRS-derived) gives lonu luboa; another MRS-derived article, nilamehi, is also attached to this species. Needs checking.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Chromis-ternatensis.html
- fishbase.se /comnames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=5677&GenusName=Chromis&SpeciesName=te
- dv.wikipedia.org /wiki/ނިލަމެހި
- dv.wikipedia.org /wiki/ލޮނު_ލުބޯ
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Blue_Green_Chromis_(Chromis_viridis)_and_Ternate_Chromis_(C
Dhivehi name source: FishBase (country: Maldives) agrees: 'Lonuluboa'. Thaana from the Dhivehi Wikipedia article 'ލޮނު ލުބޯ' (derived from the MRS 1997 Dhivehi edition). Dhivehi Wikipedia also has: ނިލަމެހި. No published Latin-script form found; 'Lonu luboa' is Pax's transliteration of the Thaana (Malé Latin conventions). FLAG: Latin form is a transliteration, not a published spelling.