Biology:Pictichromis paccagnellorum

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Short description: Species of fish


Pictichromis paccagnellorum
Pictichromis paccagnellae.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pseudochromidae
Genus: Pictichromis
Species:
P. paccagnellae
Binomial name
Pictichromis paccagnellae
(Axelrod, 1973)
Synonyms[2]

Pseudochromis paccagnellae Axelrod, 1973

The royal dottyback (Pictichromis paccagnellorum),[3] also called the bicolor dottyback, gramma dotty or false gramma is a fish commonly kept in marine aquariums. The front of the fish is bright purple and the posterior is yellow. In an aquarium, it will grow up to three inches long. The dottyback will defend its territory against fish several times its size, but gets along with many other common aquarium fish. It is sometimes mistaken for a royal gramma (Gramma loreto).

The specific name honours the Paccagnella family of Bologna who were wholesalers of aquarium fish and who gave the type to the author, Herbert R. Axelrod.[4]

It can grow up to 6 cm in length.

References

  1. Smith-Vaniz, W.F. (2016). "Pictichromis paccagnellae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T69583393A115464927. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T69583393A69583509.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/69583393/115464927. {{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Pictichromis paccagnellae" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. "Pictichromis paccagnellorum". https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1577364. 
  4. "Subseries OVALENTARIA (Incertae sedis): Family PSEUDOCHROMIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 30 April 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/pseudochromidae/. 

Gill, A. C. 2004 (3 June) Revision of the Indo-Pacific dottyback fish subfamily Pseudochrominae (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae). Smithiana Monographs No. 1: 1–213, Pls. 1-12.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2001498 entry