diff --git a/scanpy/api/pl.py b/scanpy/api/pl.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/scanpy/api/pl.py
+++ b/scanpy/api/pl.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from ..plotting.anndata import scatter, violin, ranking, clustermap, heatmap
+from ..plotting.anndata import scatter, violin, ranking, clustermap, heatmap, dotplot
 
 from ..plotting.preprocessing import filter_genes_dispersion
added dotplot to api