Sailfin dottyback

The sailfin dottyback (Oxycercichthys veliferus), also known as the longtail dottyback, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Pseudochromidae, the dottybacks from the Western Central Pacific where it is found on the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs in the Coral Sea,[3] where it is occurs inshore near rock and coral formations where there are sandy bottoms. This fish occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 12 centimetres (4.7 in) in length.[4] It is pale greyish to yellowish in colour and has bluish upperparts, a bluish dorsal fin which fades to yellow posteriorly and it has a dark blue spot at the anterior end of the dorsal fin.[3]

Sailfin dottyback
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pseudochromidae
Subfamily: Pseudochrominae
Genus: Oxycercichthys
Gill, 2004[1]
Species:
O. veliferus
Binomial name
Oxycercichthys veliferus
(Lubbock, 1980)[2]
Synonyms
  • Pseudochromis veliferus Lubbock, 1980
  • Ogilbyina velifera (Lubbock, 1980)

References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Oxycercichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  2. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Pseudochromis veliferus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  3. Bray, D.J. (2018). "Oxycercichthys veliferus". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 21 Oct 2018.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2008). "Ogilbyina novaehollandiae" in FishBase. December 2008 version.


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