Centropyge shepardi.....or not

[yikai]

Shepard's angelfish may not be an actual species after all!

i was browsing through reefcentral and stumbled upon this thread. omg it's really really fascinating for fish nerds like me.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1702055

could C. shepardi be a hybrid of Flame and rusty? shepardi could just as well be a hybrid that have fooled people into thinking it's a species on it's own! that's what copps think.

what do you think?

[dnsfpl]

correct me if i am wrong

if they(regardless of hybrid or not) can produce offspring that look similar to itself, not flame nor rusty, a new species is form.

this is evolution.

cheers

[yikai]

you're probably right.

but maybe what the guy was trying to say is that the very first shepardi angelfish was not a new species. the very first shepardi angel was brought upon by crossbreeding and not a new species from natural selection etc.

must read the whole article then will know what he's trying to say. i did not have time to read the whole thing yet