A beautiful undescribed species that's hiding in plain [...]
As part of my ongoing series documenting undescribed species of the Amphiprion clarkii group, let’s journey to the Mariana Arc to find yet another distinctive fish in need of recognition. This chain of islands sits at an important biogeographical intersection, where the eastern fauna of [...]
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 unique melanism and [...]
Update: The original version of this article misidentified this specimen as the first record of the Orangefin Anemonefish (Amphiprion chrysopterus) to be found in the Philippines. And indeed, the population of that species occurring in the Mariana Islands does looks remarkably similar in [...]