Two Tigerpyges!

[yukonblizzard]

I know Fishkidd has one but did you know another member has one?

Here is his thread...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14322383#post14322383

Here are 2 pictures of the hybrid from his thread...

Maybe you guys already knew but just thought I'd share

 

[Ian]

I don't think it's a rare Hybrid, just that Fishkids fish is an exceptional specimen...

 

[copps]

That is a different hybrid... and much rarer... that is a C. eibli/ C. heraldi cross...

Copps

 

[Ian]

 

[copps]

:wildone:

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

That is a different hybrid... and much rarer... that is a C. eibli/ C. heraldi cross...

Copps

Really? What differences does this fish have from matts?

 

[copps]

Really? What differences does this fish have from matts?

Matt's fish, while rare in the hobby, is well documented in nature... it is only found where Indian Ocean variant Centropyge flavissima are found, which is almost always at the Cocos Keeling Islands and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean... however, waifs of those lemonpeels make it to southern Indonesia where they breed into the eibli population, which is where Matt's fish came from... the hybrid above came from well outside of that range, where eibli and heraldi overlap...

On top of that, while C. flavissima and C. heraldi share the same color, that is probably convergent evolution... C. flavissima and C. eibli (along with C. vrolikii) are very closely related within Centropyge... all in the "flavissima complex" and morphologically and meristically near identical when color is taken out... C. heraldi is in the "bicolor complex"... So, with that said, while this fish and Matt's fish look colorwise the same, morphologically it's easy to see the input from heraldi...

What a sweet fish this is though... and exceptionally rare, in terms of its documentation and in the hobby... although not the only one...

Copps

 

[euod]

Nice footwork Yukonblizzard. Thanks.

Learned something today.

 

[yukonblizzard]

Nice footwork Yukonblizzard. Thanks.

Learned something today.

Thank you Euod!