最近收集了一条黑番茄小丑鱼RVS Fishworldin the Northern Philippines, and this one’s a beauty! Tomato clownfish are so named for their overall red body coloration which is transected only on the face behind the eyes by a single bar, but this black tomato clownfish had a different idea about what it decided to wear on the reef.
不是一个物种，黑番茄小丑鱼是番茄小丑鱼的畸变，Amphiprion frenatus,或肉桂小丑鱼，A. melanopus.It is not possible to ascertain the precise species that this black tomato clownfish belongs to since black pelvic fins is one of the distinguishing features between the tomato and cinnamon clownfish.
What makes the black tomato clownfish so interesting is that seeing aberrations of yellow colored reef fish, xanthism, is much more common type of skin color mutation which is widespread in a wide range of vertebrates from fish, to reptiles and even birds. When the skin colors go all black, this is called melanism, or an overabundance of the black pigment called melanin, which dominates nearly all other colors of the fish.
This melanistic form of the tomato clownfish is actually well documented in Southern Japan, and those specimens are usually photographed by divers. However, there is at least one report of a ‘rotten tomato’ clownfish emerging from a batch of regularA. frenatustomato clownfish by Fisheye Aquaculture. This fish was spawned by normally colored parents but as the fish grew it actually lost this melanistic appearance.
The other interesting detail of the black tomato clownfish is its slightly reduced headstripe which doesn’t fully wrap around the top of the head of this fish. In other words, this black tomato clownfish from the Philippines is an almost perfect imposter of the McCullochi clownfish from Eastern Australia. However两亲麦卡洛奇有一条白色的尾巴和苍白的脸 - 水族馆的爱好是一种非常稀有的小丑鱼，直到大约六年前，从澳大利亚进口了一些圈养的繁殖标本，随后被囚禁和繁殖。
我黑番茄小丑鱼s just the latest in astring of awesome fish collections由RVS Fishworld在菲律宾北部。随着鱼类收集世界的这一部分的发展，以最大的可持续性来牢记净培训计划, we can’t wait to see what other exciting fish will follow in the fin-wake of the black tomato clownfish.
