QUIZ:What Are The 20 Most Numerous Marine Fish In The Trade?

[John_Brandt]

Well, you've had over 12 hours to rest your brains from the last quiz. That's long enough. Time for another....

QUIZ: What Top 20 Marine Fish Are The Worldwide Leaders As Most Numerous In The Aquarium Trade??

Based on International figures of export/import from the trade. Which fish are they?

The Top 10 are listed below. Which fish, by species, are 11 through 20? You already now know 10 fish that cannot be on the list.

The answers will come on Monday night, July 7th. Give it a shot. Take some guesses, you might be surprised.....


1) Green chromis (Chromis viridis)
2) Yellow tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)
3) Ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris)
4) Blue damselfish (Chrysiptera cyanea)
5) 3-stripe damselfish (Dascyllus aruanus)
6) Domino (3-spot) damselfish (Dascyllus trimaculatus)
7) Yellowtail damselfish (Chrysiptera parasema)
8> 4-stripe damselfish (Dascyllus melanurus)
9) Cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus)
10) Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus)

 

[fungia]

so are we guessing 11-20? if so this is my guesses:

11) hippotang
12) tomato clown
13) flame hawk
14) red firefish
15) royal gramma
16) clown goby
17) maroon clown
18) bicolor blenny
19) purple pseudochromis
20) picasso trigger
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[klingsa]

Ok, here goes. I didn't answer the last one, so I'd better try this one!

11. Coral Beauty Angelfish (Centropyge bispinosa)
12. Percula Clown (Amphiprion percula)
13. Tomato Clown (Amphiprion frenatus)
14. Clarki Clown (Amphiprion clarkii)
15. Maroon Clown (Premnas biaculeatus)
16. Firefish (Nemateleotris magnifica)
17. Algae Blenny (Salarias fasciatus)
18. Flame Angelfish (Centropyge loricula)
19. Volitans Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
20. Sixline Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)

Not at all sure about the order, but there's my best shot!

Sara

 

[John_Brandt]

Only one day left to get in your guesses

 

[John_Brandt]

THE ANSWERS:


11) Royal gramma (Gramma loreto)
12) Firefish (Nemateleotris magnifica)
13) Blue tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
14) Percula clownfish (Amphiprion percula)
15) Coral Beauty (Centropyge bispinosus)
16) Flame angelfish (Centropyge loriculus)
17) Scooter dragonet (Synchiropus sp.)
18> Clark's clownfish (Amphiprion clarkii)
19) Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)
20) Six-line wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)


The Big Winner: Klingsa (Sara) with 6 correct guesses, one of them in the correct ranking.

Number of participants: 3

 

[klingsa]

OOH, what do I win?? Is my check in the mail yet?? :lol:
I guess working at the LFS has taught me something after all!
Thanks, John, for posting a quiz that I could actually win!

Sara

 

[John_Brandt]

Great job guessing Sara. You do have an advantage working in the industry :wink: Your losing guesses were smart ones too.

Sorry that the one time you win a quiz there is no prize, other than fame!

 

[klingsa]

Oh, well, fame. Already have plenty of that.
Yeah, I just guessed by what I sell the most. Had no idea about the order, though. I was surprised by the gramma. We never see that one at my store. And I would have guessed square spot anthias. We get and sell tons of those!
Thanks for the quiz and the fame!

Sara

 

[John_Brandt]

The Lyretail anthias outnumbers the Square-spot anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) by almost 5-1.

 

[StevenPro]

I was just curious as to what was your reference. It could be useful to have on hand.

 

[John_Brandt]

I was just curious as to what was your reference. It could be useful to have on hand.

Steven,

Well I guess I can finally give up my source. I was going to do another quiz of the next 10, but the interest in guessing has all but died.

I did not get these fish from a list per se. They come from a massive database and I had to laboriously extract the top-rankers. I had a very good idea of which they would be (I've been in the marine fish trade for 23 years), but there were some surprises even for myself.

Before anyone starts to get critical of my quiz, know that I used a composite of data from 1995-2001. The rankings I used are from this 7 year period, and may not reflect the abundance at any given moment.

Look here; it's a fascinating way to spend hours and hours :wink:

http://www.unep-wcmc.org

 

[Expos Forever]

Although I never guessed I just wanted to say I've read these threads with great interest. I've been in the hobby over 3 years and visit several different pet stores pretty regularly and I had yet I had never seen a Royal Gramma with my own eyes until not that long ago... I've still never seen an orchid dottyback. Weird, eh? Seen lots of batfish though :roll:.