令人惊叹的红宝石红龙纳属同步性has made a big splash in aquariums around the world. Starting in South Africa, then on to Singapore, Japan and Los Angeles, the brilliant red dragonet has been spotted in shipments of red scooter blennies from a unique collection location in the Philippines.
The guesses as to which红宝石红龙纳属于同步性的物种Moyeri stynchiropus, to同步性morrissoni最近描述的Synchiropus Tudorjonesi. Morrisson and Moyer’s dragonets have been ruled out on a variety of meristic values and although the ruby red dragonet look a helluva lot likeS. Tudorjonesi, it is significantly different from the latter to be a different species, perhaps undescribed and unknown to science. We even dug up some pictures of the also unknown同步性rubrovinctusbut that species is also pretty distinctive, and not like the Ruby Red Dragonet currently under scrutiny.
So although we do not knowwhatthe Ruby Red Dragonet is, we do know that is is off-the-hook gorgeous. The brilliant ruby colored body is puntuated by few small distinct white spots, vivid yellow pelvic fins that are highly contrasted by a dark black spot on the gill cover. As an added bonus it appears that male Ruby Red Dragonets also have some noticeable dark diagonal striping in the dorsal fin as well as metallic blue spots on the face under the eyes.
当前的Ruby Red Dragonet批次来自菲律宾的一个特别深处,但John Hansen和Rufus Kimura在最近在南太平洋进行了一次探险时,将一个非常相似的标本拖到了。虽然新的超级红色同步性鱼看起来与tudornjonesi的同步型非常相似,该物种似乎保留了黑色的黑暗侧面,直到成年期,白色斑点的模式略有不同。
So, we know very little about the Ruby Red同步性, but we know that there’s more than a spattering of them being brought up from the Philippines. Hopefully the specific collecting site of the new dragonet is readily accessible so that more specimens can make it to aquariums, from which point we could see aquarium pairings lead to captive breeding.
世界各地许多不同的水族馆的贡献使这个调查的故事成为可能,我们要感谢Yuri Vendevetter,Junkai Ong,John Hansen和Quality Marinefor their help in piecing together a picture of this exciting new aquarium fish.