''Pictichromis porphyrea'', the magenta dottyback, is a
fish 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 from the western
Pacific. It can be found from the Philippines to
Samoa, extending north to the
Ryukyu Islands and south to the
Moluccas and
Admiralty Islands. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of in length.
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porphyrea
Fish described in 1974
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