ORA’s newest release – the Blackmargin or Horseshoe-Tailed Dottyback, Pseudochromis tapeinosoma – The fish shown here is a male (females/juveniles are gray with a yellow tail).  Image courtesy ORA Time to call in a favor from your LFS and hope they have an ‘in’ with ORA.  ”Another ORA first, the Black Margin Dottyback. We have Read More

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LiveAquaria has been scoring with some really top notch fishes lately especially from the Curacao and Red Sea region. Latest additions to the Diver’s Den to come out from these locales includes the Klayi basslet, Carmabi basslets, the Spanish Flag grouper from Curacao, as well as the paucifasciatus butterflyfish and nigrolineatus fang blennies from the Red Sea. Joining Read More

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There are many many dottyback species out there but only a very small fraction of them show up in the trade. An even smaller fraction that do not show up in the trade are virtually unknown with hardly any information and pictures available on them. One such species is Pseudochromis luteus. Continue reading for more Read More

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The walking cat shark of Raja Ampat was recently discovered in 2006 and is just one of many incredible species found in this hotspot for diversity. From the video above it is clear where the shark gets its name from, as it crawls through the seagrass beds with its fins. The walking epaulette cat shark Read More

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Pseudochromis ammeri and Pseudochromis eichleri are two new species of dottybacks which have just been described from the Philippines and Indonesia. Both Pseudochromis ammeri and P. eichleri are described as species of striped dottybacks, similar to each other in appearance as well as Pseudochromis colei, which is redescribed in the same paper.  Read More

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Although the calendar year may be nearly over we’ve still got some new species of fish being described and written about from the other side of the world. We’ve been graced by many new dottyback species, most of them Pseudochromis but the sailfin dottybacks of the genus Manonichthys gettting one more camarade before year’s end. Manonichthys Read More

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Pseudochromis fuligifinis is a cute new species of dottyback described from Mindoro Province and Apo Reef of the Philippines by Anthony Gill and Jeffrey Williams. The new Pseudochromis fuligifinis looks very similar to the elongate dottyback, Pseudochromis elongatus, but the half-moon shaped dark marking in the tail is a distinguishing characteristic. The original description of P. fuligifinis makes no Read More

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We’ve seen a good number of new dottyback species described and imported this year so it’s with great pleasure that we learned that two more new species were recently described from the Indian Ocean. Pseudochromis socotraensis and P. chrysospilos are the two newest species of reef fish to join the dottyback family, not from Indonesia like Read More

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The Marshall Island dottyback, ironically, is not endemic to the area as it’s name suggests. It is however, seldom seen in the trade. The slender Pseudochromis marshallensis is grey overall with only splashes of yellow on the tail and unpaired fins, as well as some light speckles on the otherwise drab body. However, it’s a Read More

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We’re not sure what it is about Pictichromis diadema that lends itself to mutations and aberrations of its color pattern seemingly much more often than other species of Pictichromis and Pseudochromis. Is it possible that the unusually colored dottybacks are the result of unexpected genetic combinations between the hybrid of the diadema and the royal Read More

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