What is this Clownfish called?

[triggerfish1976]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10334369#post10334369 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
No, it is really not just a marketing tool. I don't know about onyx, but picasso was in use on this forum before ORA picked it up. They are discriptive names that mean a specific thing. When you start throwing them around in cases like this, they tend to lose their meaning.

An onyx percula is a percula clown with black connecting all the white bars. Since you can't see the tail bar in the fish pictured, you can't say that it is onyx.

A picasso is a percula with an abnormal, if not downright bizarre white striping pattern to the point where they stop being stripes at all. In the fish pictured there is not enough stripe showing to say if it is irregular or not.

This is a prototype picasso: (this is a wild caught fish)

borrowed from the AquaDesignz web page

Correct but the fish pictured is the daddy of ORA's Picasso breeding strain and if I recall the history, it was this fish that created the "Picasso" monicker. I for one know of no other WC Percula with similar markings and the general population fo "Picassos" that are currently in circulation are the captive bred ORA variants. I have seen several other WC percs. including my own that have irregular striping but nothing like that one and they were considered standard Percula's.
Is the one pictured the only WC speciman that you know of as well?

 

[phender]

I have seen three or four WC percs that have been just as extreme as this fish.
From what I understand this isn't the "original" fish for which the term picasso was termed. The original was a fish owned by projectreef.

As for the fish above, I don't know if this fish was actually in Anthony's (AquaDesignz) hands in California or not. I am also not positive it is ORA's male. (The square under the eye is not an uncommon mismark btw.) I wanted to see the one at ORA, but they seem to have taken the picture down.

 

[triggerfish1976]

Phil, As always thanks for the insight.
I am almost positive that the the clown in the pic is the ORA male. I beliebe that one of the photos on AquaDesignz site is the exact photo that used to be on ORA's site. Maybe ORA got the original from AD?

 

[55semireef]

Simple solution- a picture that exposes the entire external anatomy of the clownfish...

 

[mhhauser321]

Sorry

the picture is not mine i found it.

 

[Slakker]

In any case, you're looking for Amphiprion Percula...color variations regardless.

 

[triggerfish1976]

Hey Phil,

This is weird.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1162710
Just as we were discussing the rarity of wild cauht Picasso's here one is. I tend to see them labeled as Misbar's like the guy in the thread noted but pretty cool marking none the less.