viridis, Pomacentrus Cuvier [G.] (ex Ehrenberg) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:420 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 999] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea; Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1978:36 [ref. 20862]. •Synonym of Chromis caerulea (Cuvier 1830) -- (Dor 1984:181 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Chromis viridis (Cuvier 1830) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:104 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:46 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:261 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:241 [ref. 19344], Goren & Dor 1994:49 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:166 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:258 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:261 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:178 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:373 [ref. 24106], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:626 [ref. 25122], Johnson 1999:741 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:928 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:320 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:16 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:109 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:266 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:37 [ref. 25847], Allen 2001:3352 [ref. 26132], Nakabo 2002:928 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:45 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S113 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:632 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:73 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:20 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:123 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3324 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:361 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1451 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:79 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:206 [ref. 30449], Quéro et al. 2010:326 [ref. 30746], Motomura et al. 2010:150 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:586 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:264 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:116 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:10 [ref. 35354], Fricke et al. 2018:265 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:114 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:26 [ref. 36883], Fricke et al. 2019:212 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 23 [ref. 38321], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:132 [ref. 40104], Parenti 2021:57 [ref. 38418], Allen 2022:139 [ref. 39911], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Chromis viridis (Cuvier 1830). Pomacentridae: Chrominae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Mozambique Channel, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Wake Atoll, Marquesas Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Middleton Reef, New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.