A Chaetodon burgessi/tinkeri hybrid butterflyfish has been imported into the UK. It’s beenten whole years sincewe started to see these pop up in the trade but in that time very few if any have made it to England. The fish is being offered by Burscough Aquatics who acquired it from the Manchester branch of Tropical Marine Centre.
The fish house manager said it was the first time a burgess/tinker cross had ever been seen in Manchester in its twenty-year history. Both parent butterflyfish species belong to a subgenus of Chaetodon which includes four others – C.declivis, guyotensis, flavocoronatus andmitratus, with Chaetodon burgessi being the type species. All are Indo-pacific species being found mostly in pairs around drop-offs at depths of 50m. The exception is C.guyotensis, found right down at 300m depths. The five available species are all sought-after butterflyfish with yellow, black, or white diagonal markings and some spotting on the flanks, depending on the species.
与Chaetodon Tinkeri和Burgessi相比，特色标本与C.tinkeri共享黄色的鼻子，眼睛和背痕，但额外的深色对角线带和C.Burgessi的更微妙的斑点。尽管已知某些杂种甚至从侧面到侧面有所不同，但至少在两侧似乎都是相同的。
Chaetodon tinkeri comes from the Central Pacific and is best known from deep reefs in the Hawaiian Islands.Chaetodon Burgessihales from the West Pacific, Bali, Flores, Micronesia and New Guinea.
The pictured specimen is 2.5-3” in length and in the crazy days of rare marine fish pricing, this one-off butterflyfish seems much more conservative, priced at £439/$538.
