The Clipperton Angelfish is a poorly known species of large marine angelfish in the Holacanthus genus. The reason we don’t hear about or see this fish is because it only comes from Clipperton Atoll, a serious distance away from anywhere…
Clipperton Angelfish Still Going Strong at the Aquarium of the Pacific
As popular as marine angelfishes are, there’s still a few species which hardly register on the radar of aficionados. It doesn’t help that several of these species like Apolemichthys guezei, Genicanthus spinus and Centropyge hotumatua are very rarely encountered by…
Steve Robinson sentenced to 45 days and fined $2000 for smuggling Clipperton angelfish
When is a Clipperton angelfish not a Holacanthus limbaughi? When Steve Robinson tried to import them into the US under the name of “Blue Passer” angelfish Holacanthus sp. Over two years after the veteran aquarium fish collector was caught trying…
Cortez Marine collector pleads guilty for illegal harvesting of Clipperton Angels
Steve Robinson of Cortez Marine, a wholesale operation located in the Bay Area community of Hayward, Calif., has plead guilty to to illegally collecting the rare Clipperton angelfish endemic to an uninhabited French atoll 800 miles off the coast of…
Update on the seized Clipperton angelfish, Holacanthus limbaughi
A few weeks ago Reef Builders was first to break the news on the seizure of 40 Clipperton Angelfish by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The actual number of fish seized was 52 although a few DOAs have probably…
40 clipperton angelfish seized by USFWS
We just got word that 40 clipperton angelfish, Holacanthus limbaughi, have been seized by USFWS because they were being illegally imported ‘from’ Mexico. The Clipperton angelfish is a very rare fish in the marine aquarium trade because it only comes…
