Description: A species of the pomacentrid genus Chrysiptera with the following combination of characters: dorsal rays XIII, 10 (rarely 9); anal rays II,11 (rarely 10); pectoral rays usually 14 (occasionally 13 or 15) ; gill rakers on first branchial arch 6-8 + 14-17 (usually 7 + 16), total rakers 22-24; tubed lateral line scales 11-15 (usually 12-14); colour in life brilliant blue except abruptly yellow behind vertical line extending from last dorsal spines to about anterior half of anal fin; pelvic fins usually yellow with narrow blue anterior margin (rarely with one-half to two-thirds of fin blue) (Ref. 84037). Body depth 1.9-2.2 in SL (Ref. 90102).