Entacmaea ramsayi????

[Jeremy Blaze]

Just got an anemone in that was labeled this.

It said Colored Bulb Entacmaea ramsayi Singapore.

Looks like a ritteri to me. I'll get a pic as soon as its done acclimating.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

Here it is,

 

[GSMguy]

that looks like a stressed out H magnifica to me

oh btw ritteri is common name for H. Magnifica

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

Thats what I thought. I am sure it is stressed, just came off a cross country flight!

 

[Flighty]

Looks like a BTA rather than a magnifica to me, but it could go either way. When they are stressed like that it is very difficult to tell the difference. The white dash on the mouth area and the taper to the tentacles looks very bta to me, but I really can't tell. How itr plants its foot is usually the easiest way for me to tell for sure if the verrucae are indistinct.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

It is settling in and looking much better. I will take some pics tommorrow, once it gets settled in.

 

[Coralgrabber]

It looks like a bta to me. Here are a couple of pics of my bta.
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But I could be wrong.

 

[Amphiprion]

I would say just at a glance it is E. quadricolor. Odd, E. ramsayi isn't even a valid species. The only two accepted species are E. quadricolor and E. medusivora (the latter is only found in seawater lakes, eating the native jellyfish). Is there any way you can shine some light and look for verrucae. H. magnifica have very thin, transparent verrucae (invisible for all intents and purposes, unless you look at the right angle with the correct light), whereas they are absent in E. quadricolor.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

I tried searching for ramsyi and a few sites came up, but nothing in any of my books. It comes up with drug and toxin studies, like this,

http://www.whoi.edu/science/GG/people/ldolby/cohhNEW/whcohh/i/messerliandgreenberg-inpress.pdf

I thought maybe it was a formerly used species name.

I will get some new pics today.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

No verrucae, and now the tips are starting to take a bulb appearence.

Is this a common or uncommon color morph of quadricolor

 

[Amphiprion]

I'd say moderately uncommon. The ones with purple and green tentacles are much less so. I am thinking it is a much lesser known invalid synonym. I could not pull it up under the synonymy on any taxonomic databases.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

FWIW, I got 2 green bulb tips from the same supplier under the same name today.

 

[delphinus]

Seems to me that taxonomy is such a .. loose science. I think different taxonomists come up with their own names for things and then argue whether to split things into different taxa, or lump things into the same taxa.

My guess? I bet these are what we would call E. quadricolor, but the supplier/collector just uses this name. It's like how carpets still show up on some lists as Stoichactis whereas most of us here would call them Stichodactyla.

Just my guess anyhow!!