A very interesting clownfish was recently brought to my attention by MJ Jones, who saw the fish labeled as “CF217X” ateast coast wholesaler Carolina Aquatics，问我认为是什么。任何被巴厘岛Aquarich生产的海葵鱼迷住了的人都知道该公司的代码的菌株和类型，而CF217X不在任何已发布的列表中。尽我所能，CF（小丑鱼） + 217（？） + X（混合？）。与Wen-Ping Su的对话始于几乎令人惊讶的回应。“howdid you get that fish?!”
After a bit of discussion, including the clarification that I didn’t physically have the fish in question, Su recalled that he had sent out only a few of these fish as extras into the US, listed only as “CF217X’. He revealed that 217 is the combination of 02 and 17; a hybrid cross between theirCF02C4(stardard trueAmphiprion percula) and theCF17A（星德白条纹栗色小丑鱼，Premnas biaculeatus).
从视觉上讲，这种小丑鱼以几种方式从任何纯种物种中脱颖而出。首先，它在percula和栗色小丑鱼之间具有真正的中间体形。然后，有不同的橙色阴影。这种混合动力的最有趣的方面是在其他栗色X橙色Ocellaris杂种中显而易见的特征，是鳍片上的黑色边缘的减小。随着鱼的成熟，所有这些仍然可能改变。目前，我们只看到一个少年标本的外观。
It’s extremely noteworthy that this is an intergeneric hybrid, a hybrid that doesn’t simply cross species lines, but actually crosses the genus division as well. It’s a step farther than the typical Angelfish or Butterflyfish hybrids we fawn over here at Reef Builders! When I pressed fellow contributor and hybrid guru Lemon if he knew of any intergeneric hybrids (outside of Clownfishes), he basically came up blank. “The closest I can think of is betweenChaetodon tinkeriandChaetodon miliaris. Well both are in the same genus so technically it doesn’t qualify, but Tinker’s is in it’s own subgenus and is pretty different from Miliaris.”
The Perc X WSM hybrid clownfish we are looking at here were reared only one time by Bali Aquarich in 2014. Their goal was to simply see what the hybrid would look like. They have no plans to make more “CF217X” at this time.
至少就目前而言,这将是th之一ose truly LE, “limited edition” fish. Kris Cline of Carolina Aquatics has procured all the remaining specimens of this new hybrid clownfish from Bali Aquarich; they are due to arrive from Indonesia tomorrow, January 7th, 2014. To be the only supplier in the world to have something is a little bit of a coup for a regional, family-owned and operated wholesaler like Carolina Aquatics. Once that supply runs out, it will be slim pickings unless Bali produces more, or some other breeder successfully recreates the hybrid.
The Hybrid Debate Continues
当涉及小丑鱼中的杂交时，我们正在进行一场辩论，该辩论在淡水水上运动中肆虐了数十年，甚至一个世纪或更长时间。它是该领域中最分裂的话题之一，由于损害已经造成的损害，长期存在的混合动力车可以接受（没有回头路），但是任何新的混合动力追求都会引起许多水族馆对保护问题的谴责。近年来，花角的热潮已成为人们认为是错误或正确的所有人在观赏鱼类贸易中杂交的最具象征意义的例子。
I’ve certainly modified my opinions of hybrid marine fishes over the years. There is the veteran purist breeder in me who was raised in a freshwater arena where hybridization was the outright cause of conservation and business failure; many of the most respected freshwater aquarists draw a very hard anti-hybrid stance because of the lessons hard-learned. Why should we intentionally repeat past mistakes?
Then, there is the reality that we marine aquarists love our naturally-occurring hybrids when we see them…they’re nature’s “one offs” and I’ve long held the believe that recreation of naturally occurring hybrids would simply be recreating naturally occurring biodiversity. The re-creation of, say, the混合Paracentropyge(venustaXmultifasciata)could no doubt represent an incredible income source for a captive breeding operation, since there are effectively no wild caught specimens to compete with that can drag prices down to non-profitable levels. There’s no harm in the recreation of this example hybrid…no one would ever confuse it for a parental species, but the upsides for commercial angelfish propagation would be immense, and the parental species would need to be maintained and propagated as well in order to keep production viable for the long term. It’s actually a winning business and conservation scenario (anyone want to get in and fund me?)
但是，我们有最年轻的海洋繁殖者，他们有时渴望扮演疯狂的科学家，只是在不关心或担心长期后果的情况下创造新的东西（并为自己取名）。毫无疑问，这是由于小丑鱼传播变得多么容易的原因，而其他大多数其他海洋鱼都被认为更加复杂（许多人并非如此，但是小丑鱼已经成为海洋水族馆，如今已成为“鸟窝”）。我认为，根本缺乏理解，尤其是在通常很年轻的初期繁殖者中，并非所有杂种都是平等的。有些可能是良性的，而另一些则代表了侵蚀物种之间遗传差异的直接途径，而物种一旦发生就永远不会被撤消。这是我们进入的危险领域，尤其是如果我们将来无法进入野生，纯净的育雏。
But I’m concerned this is already becoming reality, the marine breeders repeating the mistakes of their freshwater counterparts, refusing to learn from those who went before them. Good luck trying to find a genetically pure Darwin Black Ocellaris in the United States – I suspect that ship has sailed and all we will have in the future are hybrid mutts that “look enough like them”. The more I talk with producers of clownfishes, the more I realize just how loose we are collectively being with our genetic stocks.
做混合“正确” - 巴厘岛最新的混合动力车如何（以及为什么）
The middle ground we can strike is simple and two fold. First, breeders should avoid making hybrids between related species where the outcome will be difficult or impossible to differentiate from a pure species and even what some believe are only geographic races (because taxonomy changes, but geographic uniqueness does not). Granted, this is a lost cause in the Ocellaris/Percula complex at this time, and there are breeder out there who will push these lines almost directly out of spite, because no one else should dare tell them how and what to breed…so the problem will always persist at some low level as a result of arrogance and immaturity.
But more importantly, we need to embrace an ethic of transparency and record keeping for hybridization as it happens, as such a basic framework allows us to credit the originator of something that is new, but also gives us a framework within which we can reference this hybrid organism and market it as what it is. There is room to tolerate hybridization and even showcase it, as I’m doing here, provided we can come to a collective ethic that values and respects transparency and accurate information.
Simply put, it all comes down to a name. Having a singular name inextricably tied to a specific hybrid lineage ensures that everyone knows what the fish is. One hybrid name for one hybrid makeup….not 10 names for the same thing.
These days, anyone can now look up ‘Mai Tai’, ‘Blood Orange’ and ‘Cocoa’ Clownfish and should be able to find out that all three names designate unique biogeographic hybrids between types of “Ocellaris” and “Maroon” Clownfishes. Su, in his pragmatic point of view, was hesitant to select a name for this new hybrid, both downplaying that he had in fact created something “new” while also suggesting that he simply isn’t the best to name his fish (Nebula was in fact, another name provided by a third party to Bali Aquarich). Still, this hybrid needed a name, so Su invited myself to propose a name for his creation.
Knowing that Cline and Carolina Aquatics would be the sole source for the one-time limited quantity of new fish, we both engaged in a discussion to find a suitable name for Bali’s latest hybrid Clownfish. Given the coloration and prior names for similar hybrids, we knew we’d be playing around with citrus and cocktail-inspired words until we found the right one. Connoisseurs of a certain Wes Anderson film would havelovedthe name Citroën for this fish, although in the end, that’s also the name of a French car manufacturer. In the end, the simplerCitronis the name that Kris Cline, Wen-Ping Su, and myself all came to agree on for this unique, new hybrid clownfish.
介绍了巴厘岛Aquarich的Citron Clownfish
我会以为我最初与MJ Jones分享的想法；有人应该服用这些新的Citron小丑鱼之一，并将其与血橙小丑鱼搭配。为什么？
Well, the resultant offspring would be 25%A. percula, 25%A. ocellaris, 25%P. biaculeatus“White Stripe”, and 25%P. biaculeatus“Gold Stripe”. Now, I firmly believe that“Gold Stripe Maroons” should be restored to full species status asP. epigrammata…无论哪种方式;假设的下一代混合小丑鱼将由3至4种独特的小丑鱼组成，我可以脱颖而出，除了根深蒂固的抗杂交养育足够长的时间，可以说这个想法中有一些相当新颖的东西。是否漂亮……这是另一个故事。
图片来源 - 克里斯·克莱恩（Kris Cline），carolinaaaquatics.com
