Nest building and description of parental care behavior in a temperate reef fish, Chromis crusma (Pisces: Pomacentridae)

Navarrete-Fernández, Teresa; Landaeta, Mauricio F; Bustos, Claudia A; Pérez-Matus, Alejandro

doi:10.1186/s40693-014-0030-2

Table 1 Review of type of nest among tropical and temperate pomacentrid members

From: Nest building and description of parental care behavior in a temperate reef fish, Chromis crusma (Pisces: Pomacentridae)

Species	Distribution	Lt	Type of nest	Egg	Sex	Reference
Abudefduf abdominalis	Tropical: Eastern Central Pacific	30	Substratum	7	Male	Ridley [1978]
Abudefduf luridus	Temperate: Eastern Atlantic	15	Vertical walls, algae, and sponges	ND	Male	Ridley [1978]; Mapstone and Wood [1975]
Abudefduf saxatalis	Temperate: Atlantic Ocean	23	Reef wall, crevices	5	Male	Reese [1964]
Abudefduf taurus	Tropical: Western Atlantic	25	Crevices	7	Male	Fishelson [1998]; Mapstone and Wood [1975]
Abudefduf zonatus	Tropical: Indo-Pacific	13	Sand, under rock, and coral rubble	ND	Male	Ridley [1978]; Mapstone and Wood [1975]
Acanthochromis polyacanthus	Tropical: Western Pacific	14	Dead coral under rocks	30	Biparental	Ridley [1978]; Robertson [1973]
Amblyglyphidodon leucogaster	Tropical: Indo-West Pacific	13	Dead coral or artificial structures	8	Male	Goulet [1995], [1998]
Amphiprion bicinctus	Tropical: Western Indian Ocean	14	Substratum	6	Biparental	Gittleman [1981]
Amphiprion melanopus	Tropical: Pacific Ocean	12	Substratum	9	Biparental	Breder and Rosen [1966]; Gittleman [1981]
Amphiprion percula	Tropical: Western Pacific	11	Substratum	6	Biparental	Ridley [1978]
Amphiprion xanthurus	Tropical: Indo-West Pacific	15	Substratum	ND	Biparental	Gittleman [1981]
Chromis caeruleus	Temperate: Mediterranean Sea	9.5	Green and turf algae	4	Male	Sale [1971]
Chromis chromis	Tropical and temperate: Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea	25	Under crevices	3	Male	Ridley [1978]; Mapstone and Wood [1975]
Chromis cyanea	Tropical: Western Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea	15	Under crevices	4	Male	Albrecht [1969]; Ridley [1978]
Chromis dispilus	Temperate: Southwest Pacific (New Zealand)	21	Substratum	6	Male	Kingsford [1985]
Chromis multilineata	Tropical: Western Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea	20	Under crevices, in Sargassum sp.	3	Male	Albrecht [1969]; Myrberg et al. [1967]
Chromis notata	Temperate: southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and China	17	Substratum	7^a	Male	Ochi [1985]
Chromis punctipinnis	Temperate: Eastern Pacific	25	Clean rock ledges or small caves	8	Male	Limbaugh [1964]; Turner and Ebert [1962]
Dascyllus aruanus	Tropical and temperate: Indo-West Pacific and north to southern Japan, south to Sydney, Australia	10	Substratum	3	Male	Mizushima et al. [2000]
Stegastes leucorus	Tropical: Eastern Central Pacific	20	Substratum	3 to 5	Male	Ridley [1978]
Stegastes leucostictus	Tropical: Western Atlantic	10	Shells under crevices	3 to 5	Male	Ridley [1978]
Stegastes partitus	Tropical: Western Atlantic and the Caribbean	10	Monolayer of species	3 to 5	Male	Knapp and Warner [1991]
Hypsypops rubicunda	Temperate and tropical: Eastern Central Pacific and northern central Baja California	30	Red algae	3	Male	Clarke [1970]
Pomacentrus amboinensis	Tropical: Western Pacific	15	Dead coral	4	Male	Murphy et al. [2007]; Maddams and McCormick [2012]
Pomacentrus negasakiensis	Tropical: Indo-West Pacific	11	Boulders, artificial substrata	4	Male	Moyer [1975]
Premnas biaculeatus	Tropical: Indo-West Pacific	17	Substratum	7	Biparental	Fishelson [1998]; Ridley [1978]

Geographic distribution, total length of individuals (Lt, cm), egg development in days (Egg), and sex of the individuals who perform care to their young. ND refers to not determined parameter. ^aMean number of days from 30 April until 24 August 1982 (Ochi [1985]).

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