An undescribed species of Roa at the California Academy of Sciences. Note the brown pelvic fin and white spine. Photo credit: Lemon TYK. Roa is a seldom seen and poorly known genus of butterflyfish. With only four taxonomically described species, the genus has just about as many undescribed [...]
Male & female of an undescribed Suezichthys wrasse from Hawaii. Credit: Richard Pyle / Bishop Museum and NOAA The coral reefs of Hawaii are some of the most thoroughly explored and surveyed in the world, which makes it all the more surprising that a recent trip to Kure Atoll, at the [...]
Photo Credit: John Randall There are somewhere around 88 recognized species of Chaetodon butterflyfish swimming around the coral reefs of the world, which makes it quite challenging when it comes to keeping track of all this biodiversity. Systems for classifying this mess have varied [...]
The rarely seen P. carlhubbsi, at the Galapagos Islands. Credit: Mark Rosenstein The distinctive deepwater butterflyfishes of the genus Prognathodes have been in the news recently with the exciting rediscovery of the enigmatic P. guyotensis, but, in general, this is one group that doesn’t get [...]
Prognathods guyotensis, the Guyote Butterflyfish. Photo credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer 2016. The NOAA Okeanos Explorer's live feed broadcast has resulted in an amazing display of unity amongst aquarists and scientists from all corners of the globe, as they gather together as a single entity to [...]
A collage of Prognathodes species offered for the aquarium trade. Photo credit: Lemon TYK. The genus Prognathodes is perhaps the most phylogenetically intractable of the long-nosed butterflyfishes. Unlike Chelmon and Forcipiger, Prognathodes is highly speciose, with a majority of its members [...]
