chromis, Sparus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:280 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Southern Europe (Mediterranean Sea). No types known. •Valid as Chromis chromis (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Monod 1973:424 [ref. 7193], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:917 [ref. 13676], Lloris & Rucabado 1990:846 [ref. 15959], Allen 1991:239 [ref. 19344], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:109 [ref. 26753], Parin 2003:S17 [ref. 28536], Golani 2005:49 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:92 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:112 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:169 [ref. 31251], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:52 [ref. 36649], Wirtz et al. 2013:128 [ref. 32972], Parin et al. 2014:378 [ref. 33547], Edwards in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2721 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:557 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:278 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:99 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:80 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:39 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38576], Golani 2021:66 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:74 [ref. 39014], Parenti 2021:51 [ref. 38418], Fermon et al. 2022:251 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Chromis chromis (Linnaeus 1758). Pomacentridae: Chrominae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Spain and Portugal south to Gabon and possibly Angola, including São Tome and Principe. Not Gulf of Guinea southward [Edwards in ref. 34618]. Habitat: brackish, marine.