Clownfish ID (with picture)

[AlBunch]

Can anyone ID this clownfish?

 

[FishnWishn]

Looks like A. Polymnus AKA Black Variant Saddleback Clownfish.

 

[Ron Popeil]

a. polymnus for sure.

 

[vaporize]

black saddleback as everybody said.

I sometimes do wonder why brown saddleback and black saddleback can be so different in terms of the look that they might actually be different species.

 

[lawboy888]

it looks like my true sebae..really

 

[vaporize]

A.sebae (TRUE) has yellow tail. Black saddlebacks have black tail surrounded by a white circle.

 

[SVXH6]

A. Polymnus..

 

[lakehorse61]

thanks for this. i have been trying to figure out what kind i had for a year off & on. mine is the docile friendly clown unlike the maroon & true black perc that fight if their anemones get within a foot of each other.

 

[Atticus]

Beautiful A. Polymnus, just because I wanted to feel like part of the group... Seriously though, they are great fish and their swimming style is unmatched.

 

[Gundo5000]

I saw one at the lfs a week ago that looked really sad. He was healthy and all but it looked like he was really sad (in the face)

 

[AlBunch]

Thanks for the ID!

We bought this one at an LFS and the guy seemed to think it was a sebae, but we weren't convinced. Anyway, she's adjusting very nicely - quite friendly with all the other fish, except two bar gobies that she just blusters at when they got to close to her staked out area, but she just runs them off...and they're on their way out of her tank.