A beautiful undescribed species that's hiding in plain [...]
A non-melanistic pair of the Yellowtip Anemonefish, seen at Saipan. Credit: Goodtime 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 [...]
What is this fish? From Cairns, Australia. Credit: Nautilus Scuba Club 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 [...]
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 [...]
