OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[bigbigfish]

Tigerpyge hybrid landed in HK AGAIN!

[Terryz_]

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Tigerpyge hybrid landed in HK AGAIN!

Wah.. this piece is nice..

[aray]

do you guys get this fish in Singapore?

[Sengreef]

A Hybrid ?

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[Terryz_]

A Hybrid ?

Yes, hybrid but more tennenti blood than olivaceus..

[yikai]

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Tigerpyge hybrid landed in HK AGAIN!

extremely gorgeous piece with almost no grey eibli undertones!

do you guys get this fish in Singapore?

no, but we can readily get them from hong kong. but it's expensive.

A Hybrid ?

yes hybrid Acanthurus tennenti x A. olilvaceus.

[Digiman]

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Tigerpyge hybrid landed in HK AGAIN!

I love this piece of tigerpyge!!! It inherited only the orange stripes of the eibli and kicked out the ugly black. Gorgeous!

Sagittalarva inornatus is rediscovered and placed in a new genus using DNA barcoding. Known only from a single holotype from its type location in Baja until now. Paper accepted and released in Jun 2013 this year.

This fish was described in 1890, and no information or photo or specimen has ever been available until now. using dna barcoding on similar fishes found in galapagos, it has been identified and re-grouped in its new genus. being a v deepwater fish, its range extends more than previously known. type location is baja mexico at 80-150m.

paper here: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03669p570.pdf

Wow a new genus that resembles the halichoeres genus. Downside it grows big (up to 6"). But being deepwater it intrigues me and i would love to see one coming into the aquarium trade. No deepdive collection in Baja Mexico so i guess my wish will be hard to come true.

The female of the fish:

[bigbigfish]

The last time we got a tigerpyge hybrid was like 3yrs back by Reborn Aquarium

[bigbigfish]

White tail Kole eye tang from Christmas Island landed in HK Lfs.

[Digiman]

Chaetodon Auripes

Misbar regal

Luzonichthys Whitleyi (My favourite luzonichthys)

[Digiman]

Parapriacanthus Ransonneti (Never expect this fish to be available!!)

Parapercis Pulchella (From Japan)

Glyptoparus Delicatulus

Eviota Punctulata

[Digiman]

V nice orange clarion

[Digiman]

Deepwater Lubbockicthys sp. collected in Yap islands, Micronesia, at a depth of 180 feet.

See http://www.cabrillo.edu/~ncrane/ES%2010/Ulithi/Yap%20REA%20Fish%20Final%20Report.pdf for report.

[yikai]

Deepwater Lubbockicthys sp. collected in Yap islands, Micronesia, at a depth of 180 feet.

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See http://www.cabrillo.edu/~ncrane/ES%2010/Ulithi/Yap%20REA%20Fish%20Final%20Report.pdf for report.

beautiful.

a clip of this fish can be seen at the 20 second mark of this video.

[yikai]

many rare fish at house of fins for thei 53rd anniversary splash event.

beautiful Halichoeres timorensis, as well as bodianus neopercularis/sp? it's so strange looking.

[Digiman]

Interesting fish mimicry!

Meiacanthus Geminatus (One of my fav unobtainable blenny)

Scolopsis Margaritifera (Juvenile)

Cheilodipterus Zonatus (Would love to have this fish from PNG)

[Digiman]

bodianus neopercularis/sp? it's so strange looking.

This bodianus sp needs so much investigation. There may be at least three species found down there in Tahiti deepwater!

[Digiman]

White tail Kole eye tang from Christmas Island landed in HK Lfs.

In this japanese fish tank below u can see a whitetail bristletooth swimming with the clarion angel:

Other noteworthy fishes above include

1. Old woman angelfish juvenile (cost the same as the clarion btw)

2. Ventralis anthias

3. Fuscipinnis anthias

4. Big male earlei fairy wrasse

5. Latezonatus clown

6. A big adult chromis that looks to be a Chromis Enchrysura but i am not totally sure, it could be chromis Jubauna also. Someone pls confirm.

[Digiman]

Crazy japanese tank!

Scythe butterfly

Dichrous and hoefleri

Chromis Okamurai and business suit butterfly

[aray]

wasted on that tank..such a poor taste by the owner...

[aray]

another of those 'crazy' tank...very rare clarionXpasser..

[yikai]

the following are 5 chromis described in 2008 all in the same paper.

First of 5 is Chromis brevirostris.

according to the pdf, "This species has been observed or collected from the Marshall Islands southward to Fiji, across the Caroline Islands from Puluwat to Palau, and south to Vanuatu. An underwater photo of what seems to be this species (or an undescribed species very similar to C. brevirostris) taken in Bali, Indonesia, appears as “Chromis sp.” on p. 531 of Kuiter & Debelius, 2006. C. brevirostris was not observed at Rarotonga (Cook Islands), Kiritimati (Line Islands), or American Samoa during brief surveys of deep reefs at those localities."

it is also generally abundant in its typical environment, which is characterized by steep slopes and drop-offs at depths of about 90–120 m. Usually found in association with small holes and limestone talus, often in aggregations ranging from a half-dozen to several dozen individuals feeding low in the water column.

[yikai]

Chromis abyssus.

Only collected from the type locality; also observed at similar depths at Augulpelu Reef in Palau. An individual of what appears to be this species was observed and photographed by Mr. Forrest Young at 120–150 m near Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

[yikai]

Chromis circumaurea

Observed from submersibles in the Marshall Islands and Mariana Islands, but only collected from Yap. deepwater as well. in excess of 100m.

[yikai]

Chromis degruyi

Observed or collected throughout the Caroline Islands, from Puluwat to Palau