Recently, some light has been shed on a new species ofBodianus这使每个人都努力工作。有些灯已经脱落,但还不够,我们仍然在挠头Bodianus难题。新物种被称为Bodianus“ Kimura”具有令人惊叹的荧光笔橙色和红色成人形式。但是,正是少年阶段使我们纠结于这种不可忽视的混乱网络。继续阅读以找出原因。
更新10/19/2016:该物种刚刚被描述为Bodianusbennetti。
In August 2012, we visited BlueHarbor for the第一次, and on that day, we witnessed the first ever adultBodianus“kimura” caught for the trade. It was in the earlier shipments ofCentropyge narcosisandCirrhilabrus claire,我们抓住了其他深水宝藏。配音b。鲁弗斯·基穆拉(Rufus kimurab . sanguineus, but was distinctive enough to question its true genetic identity to the affiliate.
On that same day after we visited BlueHarbor, Koji took us to his customer’s house, a doctor, who has an incomprehensible collection of deepwater fish. We shared with you our account and his collection in the第二部分of our BlueHarbor travelogue. In one of his smaller set ups, we saw and photographed a juvenile red and white striped juvenileBodianus。Cool, a juvenileB.neopercularis。We thought nothing much of it. That little juvenile was caught alongb。“ kimura”,C.麻醉andC. claire。然而,这是独特的颜色,使我们相信这只是少年的新脑hog鱼。
一年后,快进了,同样的红色白猪鱼已经长大了。现在它是一个成熟的成年人,但是它已经成长为我们永远无法为自己做准备的事情。这是一个少年Bodianus“木村”。If you were wondering why the featured image highlighting this post shows two differentBodianus, now you have you answer. They are both the same juvenile above that we saw more than a year ago at Koji’s customer’s place. Digiman recently visited Osaka (for which we will release a separate post) and saw the exact same hogfish living in the same tank, except this time it was coloured orange and red – the colors ofb。“木村”。The same juvenile now adult can be seen in the video above, at the 5.15 mark.
but wait.记住Digiman’s juvenileBodianus与成年人相同的荧光笔黄色但缺少红色条纹的“木村”?从那以后,那个少年就长大了,并揭示了其真正的成人身份。不那么令人震惊,也是b。“木村”。所以现在燃烧的问题是,有两种少年形式吗?红色/白色条纹形式和荧光笔黄色形式?
我们不知道的还有更多的事情,还是仅仅是少年的颜色变体。作为业余爱好者,我们通常只会从观察和分享其他各种礁中获得线索和信息。我们不是科学家,而且常常是我们的知识和信息共享距离遥不可及。我们希望最终对这种新的Bodianus的描述来揭示更多信息,并且可以将少年的神秘身份弄清楚。
直到那时,您认为这里发生了什么。为什么两个看起来完全不同的少年看起来像同一条鱼?让我们知道您在评论框中的想法,如果您有有关该物种的任何新信息,也要我们的方式。
Latest* Rufus Kimura has weighed in on the matter with these Bodianus, and here is what he has to say.
“在上次旅行中,我们发现了这些Bodianus的三重奏,约为475'。他们是完全成年的成年人(约7英寸),三个都是红色和白色的。我们收集了其中一个,几周后,颜色变成了橙色和黄色。我相信它们的颜色可能是由于他们正在吃的某些食物所致。在夏威夷,在一些地方,我们可以收集具有白色侧向条纹的B. nanguines,而不是更常见的霓虹黄色条纹。几周后,这种白色条纹将变为黄色。透明
因此,这意味着黄色的南太平洋身份不明Bodianusmay infact just be a confusing colour variant of the very similarB. Neopercularis?不寻常的是,在水族馆中,这些鱼变黄并远离其正常颜色,而大多数鱼类则反之亦然。就目前而言,这只是一个猜测的游戏,但是随着每一个新的信息融合在一起,我们将获得更清晰的图片。我们仍然希望这是一个有效的不同物种,但是由于少年和成年人都可以看到这种颜色变化的现象,因此毕竟可能是一种变化。