Pseudochromidae

fleckfin dottyback

Pseudoplesiops wassi

Pseudochromid Fish from Western Pacific

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Elongated
• Compressed cross-section
• Small
• Tropical fish

Pseudoplesiops wassi, the fleckfin dottyback or Wass's dottyback, is a species of dottyback fish. It is found associated with coral reefs and other rocky coastal habitats in a large part of the south-western Pacific including the Great Barrier Reef, the Coral Sea, the Caroline Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu, Fiji, Rotuma, Tonga, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands. The specific name honours the fisheries biologist Richard C. Wass.