Royal dottyback
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The royal dottyback often stays apart rather than forming schools.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Royal dottyback
- Scientific name
- Pictichromis paccagnellae
- Japanese name
- バイカラードティーバック
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pseudochromidae
- Genus
- Pictichromis
It lives in the western Pacific from Indonesia to Vanuatu and has not yet been found in Japan.
How the Royal dottyback lives
It shelters in small caves on the slopes of coral and rocky reefs.
Museums Victoria / Fishes of AustraliaBasic data
- Range
- Western Pacific, Indonesia to Vanuatu, Micronesia, and Palau
Where the Royal dottyback has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- バイカラードティーバック
- 简体中文
- 黄紫拟雀鲷
- 繁體中文
- 紅黃擬雀鯛
- Español
- Perca enana bicolor
- Deutsch
- Nymphen-Zwergbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Pseudochromis paccagnellae
- Italiano
- Pseudochromis paccagnellae
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Panter cantik
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — バイカラードティーバックChecked: 2026-11-04
- ニフレル — バイカラードッティーバックChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria / Fishes of Australia — Royal Dottyback, Pictichromis paccagnellaeChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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