True Percula and false Percula (ocellaris)

[dupy73]

This may be a silly noob question but is it possible for true and false Percula to cross breed ?

 

[CoralsAddiction]

This may be a silly noob question but is it possible for true and false Percula to cross breed ?

Yes, the hybrid is known as Percularis.

 

[Fish Stix]

Never been stung by one...

 

[nanoreefer1000]

This may be a silly noob question but is it possible for true and false Percula to cross breed ?

Yes, Photon, Snow onyx, smorcularis, etc.

 

[Ginger bay]

Of course.

 

[Leilanni]

Can you tell what mine are? How do you tell?

 

[hotelbravo]

number of dorsal spines and eye coloration are indicators of species

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Can you tell what mine are? How do you tell?

ocellaris aka false Percula and a very nice pair. The eyes are black and the black is how I judge them. Perculas have orange eyes, You can also count spines. Now with some of the hybrids and designer clowns this doesn't hold true always.

 

[ThRoewer]

number of dorsal spines and eye coloration are indicators of species

Dorsal spines are kind of inconclusive as both may have 10: Percula have 9 to 10 and ocellaris have 10 to 11.

Genetically ocellaris is a rather recent branch-off from the percula clade. See here: What we really know about the diversity of Clownfish

 

[hotelbravo]

Dorsal spines are kind of inconclusive as both may have 10: Percula have 9 to 10 and ocellaris have 10 to 11.

Genetically ocellaris is a rather recent branch-off from the percula clade. See here: What we really know about the diversity of Clownfish

thank you for clarifying

 

[president89]

This sounds stupid, but I find that Percula look longer and narrower than Ocellaris. I have no idea why, and I've never measured. However, I have seen some that are pretty darn hard to tell apart.