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Fiji damsel

Chrysiptera taupou (Jordan & Seale, 1906)

Status not recordedbony fish

The fiji damsel (Chrysiptera taupou) is a species in the family Pomacentridae, order Perciformes.

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Quick facts about the fiji damsel

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the fiji damsel live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the fiji damsel as introduced in 1 country.

  1. China

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the fiji damsel endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the fiji damsel classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classTeleostei
  4. orderPerciformes
  5. familyPomacentridae
  6. genusChrysiptera
  7. SpeciesChrysiptera taupou (Jordan & Seale, 1906)

Synonyms Abudefduf elizabethae, Abudefduf taupou, Chrysiptera elizabethae

Other names and names in other languages (14)
  • Fiji blue devilEnglish
  • Fiji blue devil damselfishEnglish
  • Fiji damselfishEnglish
  • South seas demoiselleEnglish
  • South seas devilEnglish
  • Damisel·la de FijiCatalan
  • 陶波金翅雀鯛Chinese
  • sapínek útesovýCzech
  • Fidži rifinäitsikEstonian
  • Demoiselle des mers du SudFrench
  • Damigella dei Mari del SudItalian
  • Donzela-de-FijiPortuguese
  • 陶波金翅雀鲷Chinese
  • Castagnola dei Mari del SudItalian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the fiji damsel

Other species in the same genus Chrysiptera.

Blue devil

Chrysiptera cyanea

PomacentridaeNo free photo yet

Surge damsel

Chrysiptera brownriggii

PomacentridaeNo free photo yet

Cape damsel

Chrysiptera unimaculata

PomacentridaeNo free photo yet

Neon damsel

Chrysiptera caeruleolineata

PomacentridaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the fiji damsel an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the fiji damsel as introduced in 1 country: China, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the fiji damsel?

The fiji damsel (Chrysiptera taupou) belongs to the family Pomacentridae in the order Perciformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Fiji damsel (Chrysiptera taupou). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/fiji-damsel

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“Fiji damsel (Chrysiptera taupou).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/fiji-damsel.

BibTeX
@misc{fiji_damsel_2026,
  title = {Fiji damsel (Chrysiptera taupou)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/fiji-damsel},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}