We’ve already posted our Top 15 New Reef Fish Species of 2015 but we should have held out for one more week. Prolific fish namers Gerald Allen and Marc Erdmann have gone an published one more paper this year, this time describing three new species of damselfish from Eastern Indonesia.
Chrysiptera Ellenae，C。Maurineae和C. papuensisare the three newcomers to the large and diverse family of damselfishes, from Raja Ampat, Cenderawasih Bay and Papua New Guinea respectively. The three new species ofchrysipteraare all known forms ofC. oxycephala, a common aquarium fish often imported from greater Indonesia and the Philippines.
艾伦（Ellen），毛琳（Maurine）和巴布亚（Pabua）的大坝selvish都具有自己独特的颜色图案，因为少年，随着鱼的成熟，它变为更具体的外观。成人的着色范围从大多数蓝色Chrysiptera Ellenae，大部分为黄色，蓝色叮叮鳍chrysipteramaurineae和yellow with fine blue spots inchrysipterapapuensis.
The three newestchrysipterafrom the eastern corner of the Coral Triangle are described in a complete review of theC. oxycephalacomplex with the best pictures we’ve yet seen of another very rarely seen species from the outer islands to the north of Papua New Guinea,chrysipterasinclairi. Normally we’d give you a proper rundown of each of the new damselfish species but there’s simply too much to cover. But if you want to dive in yourself, the description of the three newchrysipteraspecies is published online in theJournal of the Ocean Science Foundation.
