Almost Amphiprion thiellei.

We photographed this one in Sogod Bay, southern Leyte, the Philippines.

Its colors are close to A. thiellei but it also can be a freakish A. perideraion.

Also in Sogod Bay, we photographed what may be our first Philippine A. percula.

Go to possible A. thiellei: www.poppe-images.com

Go to first A. percula: www.poppe-images.com

For color variants of Amphiprion go to: http://wish.wodonga.tafe.edu.au/~kwaldon/species.htm

greetings

Guido

A. thiellei is usually considered a hybrid rahter than a true species. Thus A. thiellei or freakish A. perideraion are probably equally accurate ID's.

As for the percula, the posted picture is a bad for the purpose of an ID , but the other pictures in your gallery look much more like an A. percula.

Nice shots of some unusual fish.

Cool shots. I have been shooting for, oh, say a lot of years and I still lack a good claowsifh shot.

Joe

Hi,

I used to keep a pair of similarly marked clownfish in my old aquarium. They were probably A. leucokranos - a probably hybrid of A. clarkii and the orange skunk (can't remember species).

They bred every week but they young were extremely weak. I was hoping to do some genetic testing but never got a fry big enough to get a sample.

In any case, I think the clown in your photo is probably A. leucokranos.

Cheers

James

I agree with you guys, this is some kind of hybrid. Since color in hybrids varies a lot, I would just leave it identified as Amphiprion sp. The second one is A. percula.

Luiz