130 X 36 x 36 inbound...any suggestions?

And what is the difference between the coco lemonpeel Angel and the Fiji and Vanuatu lemonpeel? Because it looks to be of the pacific color variety.
 
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Do you think if there was a population around the islands, that they could have had enough gene flow to become a distinct subspecies or species without being noticed before this time?
 
I have another question for you. I just read a paper detailing the different geographical areas of the lemonpeel Angel and I was wondering if you think it could be possible that the two distinct population of lemon peels (Indian Ocean and pacific) could be diverging into two distinct subspecies of lemon peels and we are seeing this in the mentioned lemonpeel Angel? Or am I just overthink this hypothesis.
 
And couldn't C. flavissima/eibli/vrolikii Be just different color morphs of the same species corresponding to different geographical regions? Because of their links through a common ancestor and their increased willingness to hybridize so readily in their overlapping regions.
 
Dakbur said:
And what is the difference between the coco lemonpeel Angel and the Fiji and Vanuatu lemonpeel? Because it looks to be of the pacific color variety.
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The Christmas Island- Cocos Island have a diff color morph than the Pacifics, the eye is blue, like seen in C. vrolikii, and it might lack or have just a very faint blue circle around the eye. Both have the blue ringed eye spot in the middle of the body as juvis...
 
Dakbur said:
I have another question for you. I just read a paper detailing the different geographical areas of the lemonpeel Angel and I was wondering if you think it could be possible that the two distinct population of lemon peels (Indian Ocean and pacific) could be diverging into two distinct subspecies of lemon peels and we are seeing this in the mentioned lemonpeel Angel? Or am I just overthink this hypothesis.
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def an idea being tossed about...a dna check of a tail clipping is being done..
 
Dakbur said:
And couldn't C. flavissima/eibli/vrolikii Be just different color morphs of the same species corresponding to different geographical regions? Because of their links through a common ancestor and their increased willingness to hybridize so readily in their overlapping regions.
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these little angels get around..many hybrids of C. flavissima with other c species have been seen, but most are vrolikii and eibli...the color morphs are a result ot the hybrids...
 
humaguy said:
Christmas/cocos islands?
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No, where this specimen was collected in the triangle .
It goes along with another question that you answered.
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I have another question for you. I just read a paper detailing the different geographical areas of the lemonpeel Angel and I was wondering if you think it could be possible that the two distinct population of lemon peels (Indian Ocean and pacific) could be diverging into two distinct subspecies of lemon peels and we are seeing this in the mentioned lemonpeel Angel? Or am I just overthink this hypothesis"
 
Dakbur said:
Do you think if there was a population around the islands, that they could have had enough gene flow to become a distinct subspecies or species without being noticed before this time?
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it is possible, and is an idea being kicked around..I can say there are def more at the location...
 
That is very cool indeed. What part of the fish seems to be a bit different? I can't really tell a difference in their morphology or phenotype.
 
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