I came across some more images of the Blackfoot Clown from a trip to the Maldives last year, and thought I’d share them. This really is a splendid fish with clear markings and coloration which makes it stand out in the often-cloudy waters of the Indian Ocean. A. nigripes, also called the [...]
It is no surprise that clownfish make such popular photographic subjects. Not only are they attractive, but unlike most fish, they tend not to swim away, choosing instead to hunker down in their hosts’ tentacles and stare resolutely at the camera. Here is my selection of my best pics of [...]
A recently published study is helping to shed some light upon a fascinating and poorly understood evolutionary puzzle concerning a group of familiar reef fishes. Within the hugely diverse genus Amphiprion, there is a distinctive lineage formed from species that have a white stripe along the back, [...]