''Pseudoplesiops'' is a genus of
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 ...
fishes currently with ten described species. They are distributed in the south
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
and in the
Indian Ocean
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as far west as the
Maldive Islands
Maldives (, ; dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ, translit=Dhivehi Raajje, ), officially the Republic of Maldives ( dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ, translit=Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa, label=none, ), is an archipelag ...
.
Species
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Pseudoplesiops annae''
( Weber, 1913) (Anna's dottyback)
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Pseudoplesiops collare''
A.C. Gill, Randall & Edwards, 1991 (Collared dottyback)
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Pseudoplesiops howensis''
Allen Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to:
Buildings
* Allen Arena, an indoor arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee
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* Allen Fieldhouse, an indoor sports arena on the Unive ...
, 1987 (Lord Howe dottyback)
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Pseudoplesiops immaculatus''
A.C. Gill & Edwards, 2002 (Immaculate dottyback)
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Pseudoplesiops occidentalis''
A.C. Gill & Edwards, 2002
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Pseudoplesiops revellei''
Schultz, 1953 (Bearded Dottyback)
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Pseudoplesiops rosae''
Schultz, 1943 (Rose Island Basslet)
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Pseudoplesiops typus''
Bleeker, 1858 (Hidden Basslet)
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Pseudoplesiops wassi''
A.C. Gill & Edwards, 2003 (Fleckfin Dottyback)
References
Fishbase entry for ''Pseudoplesiops''''Pseudoplesiops wassi'', a new species of dottyback fish (Teleostei: Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae) from the West Pacific A.C. GILL & A.J. EDWARDS
Pseudoplesiopinae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
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