Shady Dottyback, Pseudoplesiops umbrosus Fujiwara, Gill, Endo, Shibukawa & Motomura 2025

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Bray, D.J. 2025, Pseudoplesiops umbrosus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 07 Jun 2026, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/5785

Shady Dottyback, Pseudoplesiops umbrosus Fujiwara, Gill, Endo, Shibukawa & Motomura 2025

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Distribution	Northern Great Barrier Reef (Yonge Reef, Escape Reef), Coral Sea, Australia. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Western Pacific: West Papau, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
Etymology	The specific name is from the Latin umbrosus (= shady). in allusion to the relatively dusky coloration. It also references the species previous confusion with P. rosae, in the sense it was shaded from view.
Species Citation	Pseudoplesiops umbrosus Fujiwara, Gill, Endo, Shibukawa & Motomura 2025, Ichthyological Research First online: 3, Figs. 1a, 2, 3b, 4a-b. Type locality: Tean, Amami-oshima I., Amami Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 28°09'41"N, 129°17'28"E, depth 10-16 metres.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2025

Shady Dottyback, Pseudoplesiops umbrosus Fujiwara, Gill, Endo, Shibukawa & Motomura 2025

References

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Vols 1–3. Perth, Western Australia : Tropical Reef Research (as Pseudoplesiops rosae)

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2024. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Second ed. Perth, Western Australia : Tropical Reef Research (as Pseudoplesiops rosae)

Fujiwara, K., Gill, A.C., Endo, H., Shibukawa, K. & Motomura, H. 2025. Taxonomic review of the dottyback genus Pseudoplesiops in Japanese waters, with descriptions of two new species (Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae). Ichthyological Research First online: 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-025-01036-9

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R.C. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. 2nd, revised ed., Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press, i-xx + 1-557, Pls. 1-7. (as Pseudoplesiops rosae)