In the ocean, longer wavelengths of light (i.e. red) are quickly filtered out, so that with increasing depth the red pigmentation of marine life takes on increasingly inky tones. This provides excellent camouflage in the darkness and is why so many deeper-water...
A couple interesting butterflyfish hybrids have turned up in the Philippines, giving us the opportunity to guess the parentage behind these strange genetic amalgamations. You might want to take a moment to...
One of the biggest frustrations with keeping smaller reef aquariums, particularly those under five gallons, is in finding fish species that are suitable for such tight accommodations. Despite the vast biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems, surprisingly little of this...
Blennies are a diverse lot, with some 400+ species scattered across several dozen genera, but, out of all this taxonomic richness, only a small number of these fishes commonly find their way into aquarium exports. The two most diverse genera, Ecsenius &...
It’s time once again to recap the year in fish. We’ll be counting down all the exciting new species named this year (and be sure to check out the Top Ten Reef Finds for a look at some other juicy discoveries).…
By all accounts, 2018 was a bit of a down year for corals. When people weren’t busy carving their names into them, they were busy wiping them from the planet with climate change.
Yeah, it’s not the greatest time to be a coral.…
It’s mid-December, which means that it’s finally time to recap the year in coral reefs. 2018 brought with it an embarrassment of riches when it came to juicy reef discoveries. There were plenty of strange corals sighted, along with an overwhelming variety of newly described fishes, but I’ll be featuring those in separate posts.…
The little Lipogramma basslets are proving to be one of the most diverse and fascinating groups of reef fishes in the Caribbean. The dozen or so species in this genus (two of which were just described back in January) present an array of eye-catching color, correlating with a complex evolutionary history driven by geographically and ecologically induced patterns of speciation.…
This gorgeous damselfish was just collected in Northeast Madagascar by Blue Ocean SARL, and it may represent the first image of a newly discovered species, possibly one which is endemic to this small corner of the Indo-Pacific.…
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I can’t believe that this needs to be said, but could you please not carve words into corals.
Can scleractinian graffiti just not be a thing?…