In the spotlight
À la découverte des animaux marins avec la Voix du Nord
Pour son podcast Les ch'tites histoires, la Voix du Nord a rencontré l'équipage de Nausicaá.
Identity card
Sapphire devil
- Scientific name:
- Chrysiptera cyanea
- Family:
- Pomacentridae
- Class:
- Actinopterygii
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Year of description:
- Quoy & Gaimard, 1825
- IUCN Status:
- Least Concern
- Distribution:
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Western Indo-Pacific: from Indonesia and Australia to the Mariana Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Philippines, and Taiwan.
- Habitat:
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Clear lagoons, shallow coral reefs, between 0 and 10 metres deep.
- Size:
Up to 8.5 cm.
- Diet:
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Algae, pelagic tunicates, copepods.
