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 [...]
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 anemonefishes in the aquarium trade, Amphiprion milii, from the waters near Darwin, [...]
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 [...]
Day 18 anemonefish 2015 Darwin Science Expedition – Day 1 – Arrival and… well done Pitcairn! | Chagos Conservation Trust On this day there is barely a breath of wind, let’s hope the weather hold for our dive program in the coming weeks but for today such a still atmosphere [...]
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hugely popular genus, our understanding of their evolutionary history and speciation is still quite piecemeal and often outdated. There are [...]
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 [...]