''Pholidochromis'' is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the

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Pseudochrominae Pseudochrominae is a subfamily of ray-finned fishes, one of four subfamilies that make up the family Pseudochromidae, the species within the subfamily are commonly called dottybacks. They are small reef-associated marine fish which have an Indo ...

, which is one of four subfamilies in the

dottyback The dottybacks are a family, Pseudochromidae, of fishes which were formerly classified in the order Perciformes, but this has been revised and the family is regarded as of uncertain affinities, or ''incertae sedis'' within the Ovalentaria, a cl ...

family Pseudochromidae. They occur in the western and central Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are two species in the genus: * '' Pholidochromis cerasina'' A.C. Gill &

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, 2004 (Cherry dottyback) * '' Pholidochromis marginatus'' ( Lubbock, 1980) (Margined dottyback)

References

Pseudochrominae Taxa named by Anthony C. Gill {{Pseudochromidae-stub