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2013, December 10.  Philippines Marine Biodiversity - Definitives

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  3p  Purple Firefish - Singles (3,000,000)

  5p  Pyjama Cardinalfish - Singles  (7,750,000)

10p  Longnose Filefish - Singles (5,750,000)

13p Raccoon Butterflyfish  -  Singles  (250,000)

 

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Purple Firefish (Nemateleotris decora).   Also known as the Decorated Firefish, Purple Dartfish, Decorated Dartfish, or Flame Firefish, was first discovered in the Indo-west-Pacific Ocean in 1973 by Randall and Allen. The colorful body base is varied degrees of yellow to white, and deep shades of purple which begin at the head and ends with maroon-tipped fins.http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+2971+173&pcatid=173

Pyjama Cardinalfish (Sphaeramia nematopterus).  A popular aquarium fish.  It grows to a total length of about 2.5 inches (8.5 centimeters) and features distinctive red eyes and a broad dark vertical 'waistband' with scattered red spots toward the tail. It is considered to be of low vulnerability, and is distributed throughout much of the West Pacific, from Java to Fiji, and from the Ryukyu Islands south to the Great Barrier Reef.   The male pajama cardinalfish incubates the eggs in its mouth until they hatch.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajama_Cardinalfish

Longnose Filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris).  This highly specialized fish feeds almost entirely on stony coral polyps (namely those from various staghorn coral species) and does so by neatly plucking only the polyps from the skeleton without ingesting the latter. As a result, it is always found in association with these corals and will slip in among the branches of its prey when threatened.  This fish, like other filefishes, has two dorsal fins, the first dorsal has two stout spines and, like in their cousins the triggerfishes, the pelvic fins are lacking but instead there is an extension of the pelvic bone, known as the pelvic rudiment, that has a "spinous" knob on its end and skin attached to it.   http://www.wakatobi.com/fishID/species_profileS.php?photoID=342

Raccoon Butterflyfish (Chaetodon Lunula).  Yellow-orange, but darker on the upper half of the body. It has a black patch around its eyes, with a broad white stripe posterior to it. Two black stripes bordered in yellow reach from the white stripe to the dorsal fin.  Named for the black mask-like marking over it’s eyes.  It is a hardy Butterflyfish that is well known for eating almost any type of anemone.  Like the mammal to which it is named after, the Raccoon Butterflyfish is predominately a nocturnal feeder.  https://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?did=1&pid=585&cid=26

 

 

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