| Royal dottyback | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Pseudochromidae |
| Genus: | Pictichromis |
| Species: | P. paccagnella |
| Binomial name | |
| Pictichromis paccagnella |
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The Royal Dottyback (Pictichromis paccagnella), also called the Bicolor Dottyback 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 their territory against fish several times its size, but gets along with many other common aquarium fish.
It can grow up to 6 cm in length.
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.