Sohal/clown tang hybrid?

[kingkai512]

Has anyone ever seen one in person? I was only able to find one pic on the internet but they apparently exist.

If you have seen one in a store please let me know where!

 

[Haydn]

I wasn't aware that their distribution in the wild overlapped. The Sohal tang is a Red sea endemic and the Clown tang although found on the east coast of Africa isn't found as far north as the Red sea.

 

[mattzang]

sounds like a terrifying combination, like the t-rex raptor dinosaur in jurassic world

 

[B-ridge]

Might be photoshopped. In all my years this is the first time I’ve ever heard of this

 

[ca1ore]

Yup, never heard of it .....

 

[Pbh-reef]

A quick google search brought up this article

Socotra is a convergence of hybrid reef fish | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Socotra is a far flung island of the Western Indian Ocean which is incredibly hard to reach, and even harder to study underwater. A couple years back however, a team of researchers including…

reefbuilders.com

 

[Haydn]

A quick google search brought up this article

Socotra is a convergence of hybrid reef fish | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Socotra is a far flung island of the Western Indian Ocean which is incredibly hard to reach, and even harder to study underwater. A couple years back however, a team of researchers including…

reefbuilders.com

WOW! I have never heard of the place

 

[kingkai512]

Yes socotra is an island off the coast of africa where sohals and clown tang populations overlap, so any fish vendors off that coast might have possibly seen one...