Premnas sp. epigrammata “Gold Stripe Maroon” Clownfish, 3/14/16 WYSIWYG

This is a WYSIWYG listing – This is the exact fish being offered for sale.

This juvenile is considered F1 from an inbreeding standpoint; it’s parents are the unrelated outcross Gold Stripe Maroon pairing we sold earlier this year. My guestimate on the size of this fish is 1.75″.  This fish is considered a misbar; see the photos for further details.

Note – While current taxonomy suggests that the Gold Stripe Maroon is simply a color variant of the White-Striped Maroon Clownfish (WSM), Premnas biaculeatus, it has become very clear that the GSM is a biogeographical variant.  It’s my supposition that in fact, the GSM is deserving of species level recognition, and therefore I use the epithet sp. epigrammata which is the name formerly applied to this variety before being synonymized with the White Stripe Maroon. I am also adamantly against the hybridization of these two forms, as the natural forms are already indistinguishable for the first 9-12 months of their lives.  Once mature, the colors of the “White Gold” hybrid are squarely in between the two parents based on what has been shown to date. These two realities make it virtually impossible to differentiate the hybrids from the pure forms of each species.  This is the type of hybridization that has very bad long term consequences (see my writings on the Darwin Black “Ocellaris”) and is something I strongly discourage.