Chromis scotti

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Chromis scotti.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn | author1 = Rocha, L.A. | author2 = Myers, R. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2015 | title = Chromis scotti | page = e.T188469A1879814 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T188469A1879814.en | access-date = 9 November 2022}}

| genus = Chromis

| species = scotti

| authority = Emery, 1968

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Chromis scotti, the purple reef fish, is a species of fish in the family Pomacentridae. It occurs from southern Florida through the Caribbean Sea to northern Brazil.{{FishBase|Chromis|scotti|month=June|year=2018}} The specific name honours William Beverly Scott (1917–2014) who was the Curator of Ichthyology and Herpetology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.{{cite web | url = https://www.etyfish.org/pomacentridae/ | title = Subseries OVALENTARIA (Incertae sedis): Family POMACENTRIDAE | accessdate = 30 September 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 29 August 2018 | archive-date = 1 April 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190401101007/https://www.etyfish.org/pomacentridae/ | url-status = dead }}