The first images of an extremely uncommon surgeonfish [...]
This fish looks better in yellow. Maybe this could be a future captive-breeding [...]
A general rule among most hybrids is that the two parent species need to be closely related to produce progeny. We see this maxim pop up again and again among reef fishes. This is why we can get a Bluespicuous Angelfish or a Lamarckispilos Angelfish, but not, for instance, a Lemonpeel X Flame [...]
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 account all of the Japanese [...]
Explore the confusing genetics of the Powder Brown [...]
Good March everybody. After last week’s foray into some rather unbecoming “reef” fishes, we’ll make a Uey back into familiar territory. Literally nothing is more familiar to the casual aquarist than angelfishes and surgeonfishes. Today’s epithet etymology elucidates [...]