Archive 285: Daily Pix FULL SIZE
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Amphiprion ocellaris Cuvier 1830, the "False" Percula or Clown Anemonefish, or Ocellaris Clown. Indo-West Pacific; eastern Indian Ocean to Australia, to Philippines, to southern Japan. To a little over four inches maximum length. Bred in captivity including beautiful northwest Regular and Australian dark variety mid-juvenile and adult below. Orange overall (except for melanistic forms), with three broad continuous body bars with narrow black margins (vs. thick ones in A. percula).

Pterapogon kauderni Koumans 1933, the Banggai Cardinalfish. Restricted in distribution to Banggai Island, Indonesia, though commercially produced in good numbers in Indonesia and elsewhere. To three inches in length. A darling of the ornamental aquatics industry and hobby. Readily reproduced in captivity. A deformed one at SIO.

One of the newer "decolorized" varieties of Ocellaris Clowns... these expensive ones at House of Fins in CT.

Elacatinus multifasciatum Steindachner 1876, the Greenbanded Goby. Western Atlantic: Bahamas and Central America to northern South America. Aq. pix.

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