Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Familia: Pseudochromidae
Subfamilia: Pseudoplesiopinae
Genus: Chlidichthys
Species: C. abruptus – C. auratus – C. bibulus – C. cacatuoides – C. chagosensis – C. clibanarius – C. foudioides – C. inornatus – C. johnvoelckeri – C. pembae – C. randalli – C. rubiceps – C. smithae
Name
Chlidichthys Smith, 1953
References
Chlidichthys – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Chlidichthys species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2021. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2021.
Vernacular names
Chlidichthys is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the western and central Indian Ocean, it is part of the subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae which in turn is a constituent subfamily of the dottyback family, the Pseudochromidae. Within the Pseudoplesiopinae, Chlidichthys is regarded as a sister taxon to Pectinochromis.[2]
Species
The following species are classified in the genus Chlidichthys:[3]
Chlidichthys abruptus Lubbock, 1977 (St Brandon's dottyback)
Chlidichthys auratus Lubbock, 1975 (Golden dottyback)
Chlidichthys bibulus (J.L.B. Smith, 1954) (Nosey dottyback)
Chlidichthys cacatuoides A.C. Gill & Randall, 1994 (Cockatoo dottyback)
Chlidichthys chagosensis A.C. Gill & Edwards, 2004 (Chagos dottyback)
Chlidichthys clibanarius A.C. Gill & Edwards, 2004 (Chainmail dottyback)
Chlidichthys foudioides A.C. Gill & Edwards, 2004 (Fody dottyback)
Chlidichthys inornatus Lubbock, 1976
Chlidichthys johnvoelckeri J.L.B. Smith, 1953 (Cerise dottyback)
Chlidichthys pembae J.L.B. Smith, 1954
Chlidichthys randalli Lubbock, 1977
Chlidichthys rubiceps Lubbock, 1975
Chlidichthys smithae Lubbock, 1977
References
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Chlidichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
Anthony C. Gill & Alasdair J. Edwards (2004). "Revision of the Indian Ocean Dottyback Fish Genera Chlidichthys and Pectinochromis (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae)". Smithiana Bulletin. 3: 1–47. ISSN 1684-4130.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Chlidichthys in FishBase. June 2018 version.
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