Silver halide color photographic photo-sensitive material

A silver halide color photographic photo-sensitive material comprising a reflective support having thereon photographic structural layers comprising one or more silver halide emulsion layers, wherein:

• the pH of the coating of the silver halide color photographic photo-sensitive material ranges from 4.0 to 6.5, and
• at least one of the silver halide color emulsion layers contains at least one mercapto heterocyclic compound and tabular silver halide grains having {100} planes as main planes and having a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or higher, the silver halide grains containing at least one metal complex selected from the group consisting of metal complexes of Fe, Ru, Re, Os, Rh and Ir,
• and further wherein, in a silver halide emulsion layer containing the tabular silver halide grains, 35%-100% of a total projection area of all silver halide emulsion grains is occupied by tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio (diameter/thickness) of 1.5 or greater, and the tabular silver halide grains are produced by (i) forming seeds having {100} planes, (ii) ripening the seeds and (iii) growing crystals into tabular forms from the seeds, where the tabular grains so produced have at least one gap phase discontinuous in halogen composition at a central portion thereof, said gap being a difference of 10 to 100 mol % in Cl.sup.- content or Br.sup.- content, wherein the gap phase discontinuous in halogen composition is formed by covering a surface of an AgX.sub.1 nucleus with at least an AgX.sub.2 layer wherein AgX.sub.1 represents a silver halide, and AgX.sub.2 represents AgBr, AgCl, or AgClBr, and X.sub.1 is different from X.sub.2 in Cl.sup.- content or Br.sup.- content by from 10 to 100 mol %, whereby a defect in the gap phase-containing central portion causes anisotropic growth of the grain.