rosae, Pseudoplesiops Schultz [L. P.] 1943:117, Fig. 11 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 180; ref. 3957] Reef of Rose Island, American Samoa. Holotype: USNM 116178. Paratypes: MCZ 37297 [ex USNM 116179]. •Valid as Pseudoplesiops rosae Schultz 1943 -- (Kishimoto in Masuda et al. 1984:141 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:60 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:522 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:131 [ref. 15987], Allen 1997:94 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:126 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:131 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:122 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:214 [ref. 24106], Gill 1999:2567 [ref. 24817], Nakabo 2000:737 [ref. 25086], Gill in Randall & Lim 2000:611 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:31 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:737 [ref. 26001], Gill & Edwards 2002:25 [ref. 26562], Allen & Adrim 2003:33 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:622 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:58 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:13 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:120 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:189 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1072 [ref. 29085], Allen & Erdmann 2012:322 [ref. 31980], Yoshigou & Ichikawa 2012:1 [ref. 37770], Fricke et al. 2014:67 [ref. 33932]). Current status: Valid as Pseudoplesiops rosae Schultz 1943. Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea and Western Australia east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), Chesterfield and Loyalty islands (New Caledonia). Habitat: marine.