https://youtu.be/vtTeoy5sCoM?t=12s There are plenty of rare anemonefishes in the world, but few are quite so enigmatic as the species found along the southern shores of Oman—Amphiprion omanensis. This is one of the only remaining members of the genus to have not yet...
Here's a fresh crop of photos of the gorgeous new fairy wrasse species that was just hauled up from the Northern Philippines. The colors are really impressive on this fish, with its bright red dorsal and ventral fins and the blended orange and red hues of the body....
Hypoplectrus is diverse genus from the grouper family that has somewhere around 18 species. These fishes (known commonly as “hamlets”) are famous among evolutionary biologists for their complex evolutionary history, driven strongly by sexual selection. In a...
Discoveries like the one just made by RVS Fishworld are few and far between. This spectacular red wrasse was just found at Balintang Island in the Northern Philippines in deep, deep water (roughly 200 feet). The habitat was a flat, featureless plain of broken rubble...
This might be unfair, but, from what I’ve gathered, there are very few aquarists who get excited by the Foxface Rabbitfish. Despite its bright, cheery colors and interesting pattern, it seems the main reason these get purchased is to control nuisance algae (though,...
This week I’ve been highlighting some of the more unusual populations of anemonefishes in the Amphiprion clarkii complex, each of which is probably deserving of species recognition. So far, we've looked at the Ogasawara Black Anemonefish, Amphiprion snyderi, with its...
The inimitable Koji Wada of BlueHarbor has added yet another feather to his cap with what is likely the first specimen of Abe’s Angelfish to ever find its way into a retail aquarium store. Collected from the Coral Sea at the absurd depth of 140 meters by Tim Bennett...
New species of dragonet get scientifically described on a fairly regular basis these days, with this year alone yielding three additions to the nearly 200 recognized taxa. Most are fairly dull in appearance and unlikely to ever make their way into a reef tank, but the...
https://www.facebook.com/Omarineworld/videos/1266797816684956/ Pelicier’s Wrasse (Halichoeres pelicieri) is a rarely seen species in the aquarium trade, known only from moderately deep waters around Mauritius and Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Since its description in...
In recent years, we’ve been seeing a surprising number of fishes from the Central Pacific washing ashore at Cagayan in the Northern Philippines—Lemonpeel Angelfish, Helfrichi Firefish, Yellow Tang, Shepardi Angelfish, and on and on and on. And when you take into...