|
|
Archive 183: Daily Pix FULL SIZE
(For personal use only: NOT public
domain)
(Mmm, right click, add, set as
background...)
To: Today's:
Desktop size download,
Today's FAQs,
SW Archive 125,
SW Archive 126,
SW Archive 127,
SW Archive 128,
SW Archive 129,
SW Archive 130,
SW Archive 131,
SW Archive 132,
SW Archive 133,
SW Archive 134,
SW Archive 135,
SW Archive 136,
SW Archive 137,
SW Archive 138,
SW Archive 139,
SW Archive 140,
SW Archive 141,
SW Archive 142,
SW Archive 143,
SW Archive 144,
SW Archive 145,
SW Archive 146,
SW Archive 147,
SW Archive 148,
SW Archive 149,
SW Archive 150,
SW Archive 151,
SW Archive 152,
SW Archive
153,
SW Archive
154,
SW Archive
155, SW
Archive 156,
SW Archive
157,
SW Archive
158,
SW Archive
159,
SW Archive 160,
SW Archive 161,
SW Archive 162,
SW Archive 163,
SW Archive 164,
SW Archive 165,
SW Archive 166,
SW Archive 167,
SW Archive 168,
SW Archive 169,
SW Archive 170,
SW Archive 171,
SW Archive 172,
SW Archive 173,
SW Archive 174,
SW Archive 175,
SW Archive 176,
SW Archive 177,
SW Archive 178,
SW Archive 179,
SW Archive 180,
SW Archive 181,
SW Archive 182,
SW Archive 184,
SW Archive 185,
SW Archive 186,
SW Archive 187,
SW Archive 188,
SW Archive 189,
SW Archive 190,
SW Archive 191,
SW Archive 192,
SW Archive 193,
SW Archive 194,
SW Archive 195,
SW Archive 196,
SW Archive 197,
SW Archive 198,
SW Archive 199,
Freshwater Pic of the Day Link,
|
 |
|
Zebrasoma desjardinii ("day-har-din-ee-eye") (Bennett 1835),
Desjardin's Sailfin Tang. Seeing this fish and Z. veliferum at the same
time might cause you to do a double take; they are very similar in color and
markings. Desjardin's Tang comes to the trade mainly from the Indian Ocean or
Red Sea, so one way to distinguish it is by source locale (or cost). It also has
a few less soft dorsal and anal fin rays (28,29D and 22-24A versus 29-33D and
23-26A for the Pacific Sailfin) if you can get yours to hold still. Actually,
the easiest discernible difference is the markings on the tail. The Pacific is
white, yellow and gray banded, and Desjardin's is dark with whitish yellow
spots. Juvenile below. Currently considered the same species as Z. veliferum
by some authorities. A thirteen inch one in the Red Sea. |
|
|
|
Zebrasoma flavescens (Bennett 1828), (lau'ipala) the Yellow Sailfin
Tang. This is a "standard" in the marine aquarium hobby if there ever
was one. Only certain damselfish species grace the tanks of aquarists
more than Z. flavescens. To plate size, eight inches, in the
wild. A one inch juvenile off the Big Island.
|
 |
|
Zebrasoma flavescens (Bennett 1828), (lau'ipala) the Yellow Sailfin
Tang. This is a "standard" in the marine aquarium hobby if there ever
was one. Only certain damselfish species grace the tanks of aquarists
more than Z. flavescens. To plate size, eight inches, in the
wild. At right: An exemplary specimen in an aquarium |
 |
|
Zebrasoma flavescens (Bennett 1828), (lau'ipala) the Yellow Sailfin
Tang. This is a "standard" in the marine aquarium hobby if there ever
was one. Only certain damselfish species grace the tanks of aquarists
more than Z. flavescens. To plate size, eight inches, in the
wild. At right: A one inch juvenile off the Big Island. An intertidal
school roving in the shallows for algain, Hawai'i off of Puako on the
Big Island. |
|
|
