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“Tufi” damselfish and brilliant cap clownfish from Papua New Guinea are the latest reef gems revealed by Seasmart

 Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by Jake Adams  6 Leave a comment

The Tufi Damsellfish is an unidentified species of damselfish which was recently discovered by fishermen working for the Seasmart Program in Papua New Guinea. The Tufi damselfish was collected from Tufi in Oro Province of Papua New Guinea by the same fishermen who also brought us the Lightning Maroon Clownfish.  The PNG Tufi damselfish inhabits shallow to deep reefs, patch reefs and the fjords where it likes to stay close to tightly growing coral branches of birdnest and Anacropora coral. The Tufi damselfish is believed to be a Pomacentrus species but other genera are not being ruled out and it is very possible that the Tufi damselfish is a yet undescribed species. Along the same line of novelty, Seasmart is also catching small numbers of white bonnet clownfish, Amphiprion leucokranos which is very different from those from the Solomon Islands. SI white cap clowns are usually much more pink in body color but the PNG white cap have a distinct orange body color. The leucokranos clownfish from PNG are few and far between but we have gotten word that the first batch of Tufi damselfish are already on their way to marine livestock wholesalers in L.A. and Sea Dwelling Creatures, Quality Marine and Pacific Aqua Farms should hopefully be stocking the species soon.

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1. nice. that damsel is really beautiful. Between the endemic orchids in their rainforests and the fish in their reefs, PNG has some incredible stuff going on.
   Posted by: pickle 
   June 22nd, 2010 at 11:54 am 
2. The cap Clownfish…oh how I’ve missed my love.
   Posted by: Ryan Gripp 
   June 22nd, 2010 at 12:44 pm 
3. That clown has def picked up more of the orange skunk coloring. I wonder how big it is.

   Ive got one female and shes like yellowly brown, more like a blue stripe.

   Awesome stuff coming from seasmart.
   Posted by: B 
   June 22nd, 2010 at 1:04 pm 
4. What I am more interested to know is if the white cap is found with chrysopteus + skunk parents as some literature said.
   Posted by: Hubert the CLOWNFISHMAN 
   June 22nd, 2010 at 8:52 pm 
5. i just got four of these damsels today, a friend picked them up from SDC for me. they were calling them somthing else and no one knew how much they were apparently haha. but non the less, i got four and they do look great.
   -clay
   Posted by: Clay 
   June 24th, 2010 at 5:26 pm 
6. Hey Clay how many did you get and how big are they? I just received mine this morning and of the 6 I have, the two larger ones are by far more colorful. Is that the case with your specimens?
   Posted by: Jake Adams 
   June 25th, 2010 at 3:01 pm 

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