# Cypho

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Genus of fishes

Cypho Cypho purpurascens Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Blenniiformes Family: Pseudochromidae Subfamily: Pseudochrominae Genus: Cypho Myers, 1940 Type species Nesiotes purpurascens De Vis, 1884[1]

***Cypho*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [ray-finned fishes](/source/Ray-finned_fish) from the [subfamily](/source/Subfamily) [Pseudochrominae](/source/Pseudochrominae), which is one of four subfamilies in the [dottyback](/source/Dottyback) [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Pseudochromidae](/source/Pseudochromidae). They are found in the tropical western Pacific Ocean as far east as Tonga.

## Species

There are two species in the genus:

- *[Cypho purpurascens](/source/Cypho_purpurascens)* De Vis, 1884 (Oblique-lined dottyback)

- *[Cypho zaps](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cypho_zaps&action=edit&redlink=1)* [A.C. Gill](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthony_C._Gill&action=edit&redlink=1), 2004 (Checkered dottyback)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-CoF_1-0)** Fricke, Ron; [Eschmeyer, William N.](/source/William_N._Eschmeyer) & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). ["*Cypho*"](http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=6321). *[Catalog of Fishes](/source/Catalog_of_Fishes)*. [California Academy of Sciences](/source/California_Academy_of_Sciences). Retrieved 20 October 2018.

Taxon identifiers Cypho Wikidata: Q761840 Wikispecies: Cypho AFD: Cypho BOLD: 140742 CoL: 3YN8 GBIF: 2381637 iNaturalist: 87803 IRMNG: 1364342 ITIS: 645340 NCBI: 646042 Open Tree of Life: 356940 WoRMS: 268927

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