Anemone ID.........???

[Yuri Barros]

I have a little doubt about the ID of this anemone..............at 1:42 seconds.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjICIb7A8zs

???

 

[Reefvette]

Haddons

 

[Yuri Barros]

TNX........if its is a Haddons...........this video is a rare sight..............

We discuss this video once in the extinct Rareclownfish.com...............(the first time I saw this video was there)..............

Some clever forists believed that this is translocated clowns................to attract tourists...........

We can see some scars.......in Large Female...........and this was believed that is due unatural host.....................

Stichodactyla haddoni is not a Natural host for Amphiprion ocellaris............and this make this video a Rare Sighting........


I know that Haddons have some differenciated tentacles at the border........but I cannot see that in this video.............

And..........some Mertens contract its tentacles...........ressembling Haddons........

This ID is still obscure to me...............

Mertens or Haddons..........???

 

[Reefvette]

Haddons based on the edge tentacles there is some differenciating in the tentacles right in the middle. Mertens tentacles your seem some definite longer ones

 

[taylor t]

haddons

x2

 

[Yuri Barros]

Thank You guys..............

As some of you already know.............I do a systematic search in the NET for Clownfish pictures.............not a random collection..............but a well studied collection supported by a Biogeographic view................species by species................and all variants founded in the wild.............

If .......include sub-species classification..............(not done yet with the Sub Family Amphiprioninae).........................there are almost 50 classificable Taxons of Anemonefishes.........each one founded in exclusive Biogeographic Context.................

I love photography...............I love Biology and Natural History.......and I love Aquarism and Fish Breeding...............

I made a search in all places that clownfishes exists in the wild................collecting pictures........................

In the NET............hehehehe

I never dive with clownfishes in the wild...............:facepalm:

But in all those years siting here in front of my PC.............I never found a single Image of Amphiprion ocellaris hosted in Stichodactyla haddoni...........

Never........

This video is the only reference I have...........founded by a forum friend...........

The higher percentage of Amphiprion ocellaris Images from the Wild............they are hosted in Heteractis magnifica................and a bit less.........hosted in Stichodactyla gigantea..............

These two are the favorite host...........

Also I found few Images of Amphiprion ocellaris hosted in Stichodactyla mertensii................

Very few............

In Stichodactyla haddoni..............never............

In Entacmaea quadricolor...............never..........

 

[TinManx]

To those who said haddoni, what features give it away?

edit: I just realized Reefvette's post. What do you mean by "differenciating"

 

[Yuri Barros]

Is this a gig that ressembling Haddons..............???

 

[Yuri Barros]

To those who said haddoni, what features give it away?

edit: I just realized Reefvette's post. What do you mean by "differenciating"

I think that is this :

I´m not able to see this different tentacles............that appears in Stichodactyla haddoni..............in the anemone of the video..........

This is the detail that makes my doubt............about this anemone ID........

I cannot see this in the video..........

 

[taylor t]

Yuri, you think it's a mertens in that video? Here is a picture of mine, just the top to see what the tentacles are like. It too, has stressed before, and retracted to tight tentacles. Maybe they look similar? I can see what you mean. That is a big anemone in the video. Any Idea how large it really is?

This is from today.

 

[taylor t]

This is from a few years ago, different lighting.

 

[Yuri Barros]

The fisrt time I saw this video..............I think that this anemone is Stichodactyla haddoni...........

But I was thinking that I could be a Mertens............with retracted tentacles................or even a gig with retracted tentacles..........

Here is an exemple of Stichodactyla mertensii............with retracted tentacles...........

The fish is Amphiprion clarkii..................Melanistics.............Western Australia Variety...........called ABCC.............Australian Black Clark´s Clownfish.............from Indian Ocean..............

Exmouth...........Ningaloo Reef..............Australia.............

This anemone is Stichodactyla mertensii..............but a bit tricky..........with these retracted tentacles.............

Nice nems you have Taylor.............

 

[phender]

Not all gigs in the wild have long tentacles. We think of healthy gigs in our tanks as having long tentacles, but just like BTAs, the tentacles of gigs in the wild will vary based on lighting and current. I have seen pics of wild gigs (that were definitely gigs) that had similar dense, short tentacles.

 

[D-Nak]

I agree with Phil on this one -- it could be a gigantea.

I think there's isn't enough information to definitively ID this anemone. There is quite a bit of speculation, but without a look at the underside, it's hard to tell what kind of anemone it is.

For the same reasons a few have thought that this might be a transplanted haddoni, I believe it could also be a recently transplanted gigantea. I stress "recently" because on our home aquariums, all acclimating gigs look similar to the anemone in the video -- short tentacles that resemble haddoni. Maybe it was moved to its location because it was easier to film. Maybe it was moved so that tourists could view it. Maybe it's something as simple as an environmental condition -- that the tide recently came in and the anemone, which was exposed to air, was still in the process of inflating.

 

[Yuri Barros]

Great explanation..........from both...........

 

[OrionN]

My green Gigantea. IMO he is a gigantea/Haddoni hybrid. Very similar to the anemone in the vedio. Tjis guy is 14 years in captivity.

 

[Yuri Barros]

This is the first time I saw a picture of Anemone Hybrid.

Very nice.

 

[Reefahholic]

He is nice. I like the color.