Dottybacks are a diverse group of small tropical marine fish which include many popular species such as the colorfulPictichromis和风度翩翩假果. While many of these dottybacks have a reputation for being quite pugnacious and aggressive, there are some smaller and delicate looking species in the genusPseudoplesiops.
This genus includes the precious rose island dottyback as well as the collared dottyback,伪虫罗尔which we’ve actually never seen before. Coming from Central Indonesia, particularly the region of West Papua and PNG this species occurs mostly outside the range of typical aquarium collecting.
然而,最近在苏拉威西中部的帕卢(Palu)周围的一些收藏夹已经发现了这个鲜为人知的物种,而且看起来很不一样。它的幽灵白色的身体栖息在长而薄的白色胸鳍上,并在头后面被两个红色的棕色带。
Growing to barely more than an inch long or 3cm, the collared dottyback is not a fish you’d want to put into a normal reef as it would likely just live within the rockwork and be rarely seen. However if you’ve got a nano tank and like small weird and hard to find fish, the collared dottyback would be a very cool fish for a nano specimen aquarium.