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Freshwater Pic of the Day Link,
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Zebrasoma gemmatum (Valenciennes 1835), the Spotted Sailfin Tang.
Well-named in the vernacular and science; that is, spotted and as rare,
beautiful and expensive as a precious stone. This Indian Ocean endemic is rarely
imported to the west, and what a shame. It is just as hardy as any of the
Zebrasoma and a real beauty. Aq. pic. |
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Zebrasoma scopas (Cuvier 1829), the Brown or
better, Two-Tone Sailfin Tang. The former common name can be a bit of a
misnomer; I have seen scopas specimens as brightly yellow as a
flavescens and as dark as a rostratum. As young they're
different still, with light colored fronts grading to dark variable
spots and lines. Occasional "dirty" or mixed-color crosses between the
brown and Z. flavescens
are encountered along their contiguous distributions. Widely ranging in
the Indo-Pacific. Shown: A juvenile (tiny one inch one in Australia) |
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Zebrasoma scopas (Cuvier 1829), the Brown or
better, Two-Tone Sailfin Tang. The former common name can be a bit of a
misnomer; I have seen scopas specimens as brightly yellow as a
flavescens and as dark as a rostratum. As young they're
different still, with light colored fronts grading to dark variable
spots and lines. Occasional "dirty" or mixed-color crosses between the
brown and Z. flavescens
are encountered along their contiguous distributions. Widely ranging in
the Indo-Pacific. Shown: A two inch juvenile in the Maldives |
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| Zebrasoma scopas (Cuvier 1829),
the Brown or better, Two-Tone Sailfin Tang. The former common name can
be a bit of a misnomer; I have seen scopas specimens as brightly
yellow as a flavescens and as dark as a rostratum. As
young they're different still, with light colored fronts grading to dark
variable spots and lines. Occasional "dirty" or mixed-color crosses
between the brown and Z. flavescens
are encountered along their contiguous distributions. Widely ranging in
the Indo-Pacific. Shown: A one and a half inch juvenile in N.
Sulawesi. |
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