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 [...]
A Melanistic pair of Amphiprion milii from Darwin, Australia. Credit: Cameron Bee / Monsoon Aquatics Monsoon Aquatics made waves recently with the discovery of a couple new species of Cirrhilabrus in the Timor Sea, and they’re at it again with the collection of one of the rarer [...]
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 [...]
https://youtu.be/_EVcLhdX_ak The Chagos Archipelago is comprised of a small isolated group of coral atolls located to the south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and is home to the world’s largest protected marine reserve. A curious blend of species occurs here, with some belonging to the [...]
Credit: takaragai The Amphiprion anemonefishes are a group in desperate need of renewed taxonomic study. Despite there being numerous books and articles devoted to this hugely popular genus, our understanding of their evolutionary history and speciation is still quite piecemeal and often [...]
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 [...]
