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| Zebrasoma desjardinii
("day-har-din-ee-eye") (Bennett 1835), Desjardin's
Sailfin Tang. Seeing this fish and Z. veliferum at the same
time might cause you to do a double take; they are very similar in
color and markings. Desjardin's Tang comes to the trade mainly
from the Indian Ocean or Red Sea, so one way to distinguish it is
by source locale (or cost). It also has a few less soft dorsal and
anal fin rays (28,29D and 22-24A versus 29-33D and 23-26A for the
Pacific Sailfin) if you can get yours to hold still. Actually, the
easiest discernible difference is the markings on the tail. The
Pacific is white, yellow and gray banded, and Desjardin's is
dark with whitish yellow spots. Juvenile below. Currently
considered the same species as Z. veliferum by some
authorities. A thirteen inch one in the Red Sea. |
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| Zebrasoma flavescens
(Bennett 1828), (lau'ipala) the Yellow Sailfin Tang. This is a
"standard" in the marine aquarium hobby if there ever was
one. Only certain damselfish species grace the tanks of aquarists
more than Z. flavescens. To plate size, eight inches, in the
wild. A one inch juvenile off the Big Island, HI. |
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| Zebrasoma flavescens
(Bennett 1828), (lau'ipala) the Yellow Sailfin Tang. This is a
"standard" in the marine aquarium hobby if there ever was
one. Only certain damselfish species grace the tanks of aquarists
more than Z. flavescens. To plate size, eight inches, in the
wild. An exemplary specimen in an aquarium |
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| Zebrasoma flavescens
(Bennett 1828), (lau'ipala) the Yellow Sailfin Tang. This is a
"standard" in the marine aquarium hobby if there ever was
one. Only certain damselfish species grace the tanks of aquarists
more than Z. flavescens. To plate size, eight inches, in the
wild. At right: A one inch juvenile off the Big Island. An
intertidal school roving in the shallows for algae, Hawai'i off
of Puako on the Big Island. |
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