Case of mistaken Tang Identity

[Js.Aqua.Project]

Can someone please help me identify this Tang?

It was sold to me under the common name "Eye Spot" and is quickly becoming one of my wife's favorite fish as it has great colors and a good personality.

Is it A. bariene? Or A. dussumieri? Something else?

We are leaning towards A. bariene.

Thanks in advance.

#reefsquad

 

[ndrwater]

Looks like you nailed it. A. bariene

 

[Fudsey]

I agree

 

[DSC reef]

Another for bariene

 

[3mm3]

Really nice tang!

 

[Js.Aqua.Project]

Thanks everyone, we were hoping it was a bariene

 

[4FordFamily]

Bariene tang generally have a black dot behind their eye, which is why they’re also called “eye spot” tangs. A Fowleri does not but has an extended blue mark as an adult behind the gill cover.

To make this more complex and juveniles they’re nearly indistinguishable. Dussumeiri look quite similar as juveniles but their tails are a bit less “white”.

Fowleri

Bariene

A Dussumeiri is another close cousin, but more easily identifiable as the tails are generally less white and the border where the white begins (if any) is “less defined”. They also develop the orange eye stripe quite early. As adults they have more face and tail coloration, in general.

Dussumeiri

Honestly these tangs are such close cousins as juveniles they’re often sold incorrectly by LFS and even wholesalers.

Until these features develop they are often misidentified. However, I do feel that I’m 65% sure that you have a Bariene tang. As juveniles they don’t often have the eyespot.

 

[DSC reef]

Adult dussumeiri are stunning!

 

[4FordFamily]

Adult dussumeiri are stunning!

All three are handsome adults. My dussumeiri is only 4 inches long right now but in a year or two it’ll be a stunner, I hope!

 

[Thomashtom]

Dussermeri

All three are handsome adults. My dussumeiri is only 4 inches long right now but in a year or two it’ll be a stunner, I hope!

Good luck with your Dussemeri !!! They grow fast when young mine grew 4 inches in a little over a year but has slowed down since.

 

[4FordFamily]

Dussermeri

Good luck with your Dussemeri !!! They grow fast when young mine grew 4 inches in a little over a year but has slowed down since.

Yes they do, I figured it good for 3 inches this year alone! She’s got 500 gallons of real estate so I welcome the growth!

Yours is gorgeous!

 

[nereefpat]

Bariene tang generally have a black dot behind their eye, which is why they’re also called “eye spot” tangs. A Fowleri does not but has an extended blue mark as an adult behind the gill cover.

To make this more complex and juveniles they’re nearly indistinguishable. Dussumeiri look quite similar as juveniles but their tails are a bit less “white”.

Fowleri

Bariene

A Dussumeiri is another close cousin, but more easily identifiable as the tails are generally less white and the border where the white begins (if any) is “less defined”. They also develop the orange eye stripe quite early. As adults they have more face and tail coloration, in general.

Dussumeiri

Honestly these tangs are such close cousins as juveniles they’re often sold incorrectly by LFS and even wholesalers.

Until these features develop they are often misidentified. However, I do feel that I’m 65% sure that you have a Bariene tang. As juveniles they don’t often have the eyespot.

Nice work here, @4FordFamily

 

[schabiazabi]

Did you ever find out what the fish was? haha
It for sure was Acanthurus Bariene. It already had the yellow stripe developing which Dussemeris don't have.

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

I will bite...
Looks like a case of Mistake-tang identity

 

[joe_sharkk]

I will bite...
Looks like a case of Mistake-tang identity

Mis-tang-Ken