ID Please: Queen or Blue Angel? - PICS

[alexrex20]

it was sold to me as a queen angel, but another LFS owner told me it's a blue angel. any input?

forgive the pics. i'm obviously no photographer!

 

[nanoreefer1000]

IIRC queens a have more "curled" stripes, blue angels are more strait but I don't really know.

 

[sledge760]

Looks blue to me.

 

[Baxter]

It's a blue.

 

[albano]

I vote BLUE...from other pics, online, it looks like too much yellow for Queen

 

[n00311]

Its, a Blue

 

[OhYeah]

I agree. It's blue

 

[sandwi54]

yeah blue.

 

[humaguy]

a queen, the middle line does have a curve to it...it would be totally straight in a blue...but, it might be a Townsend...a cross of a blue and queen...

 

[alexrex20]

thanks for the info. i didn't know that they hybridize. i'm starting to think that mine is a Townsend; i don't think it's a true blue angel. i guess we shall see once it starts to change.

 

[whipsaw]

"At this size and color pattern, the only reliable way to determine the
species is by the curvature of the fourth bar from the head, a character
that remains reliable until the bars disappear. In the blue angelfish this
bar is straight (on the body) while that of the queen angelfish is distinctly
curved. Juveniles possessing a bar that is only slightly curved may be
of the intermediate hybrid form."

From: HYBRIDIZATION BETWEEN THE WESTERN ATLANTIC ANGELFISHES, HOLACANTHUS ISABELITA AND H. CILIARIS
HENRY A. FEDDERN
Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami

Humaguy nailed it. :hammer:

Townsends are fairly rare, Feddern found 187 blues, 87 queens, and only 40 townsends in the one survey off Florida.

 

[reefergeorge]

My queen as a baby. I vote blue.