Description

Up to 8.3cm in length. Deep-bodied, pale blue-green with a dusky bar on the cheek, the margins of the dorsal fin

Dorsal fin

A dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of various unrelated marine and freshwater vertebrates, including most fishes, marine mammals , and the ichthyosaurs...

 and tail are black. The fish is not nervous and is easily approached. It is similar to the related species Amblyglyphidodon leucogaster and may appear with Amblyglyphidodon flavilautus.

Habitat

Reef-associated from 2 to 35m; found in coral

Coral

Corals are marine animals in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.A coral "head" is a colony of...

-rich reef

Reef

In nautical terminology, a reef is a rock, sandbar, or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water ....

areas, patch reefs and clear water.