What Species of Clown Is this???

[Quinn]

Tough to be 100% certain but I do think we're looking at A. ocellaris here, just based on what seems to be more common in stores here. From Rob Toonen:

"Technically the difference between the two has little to do with coloration -most of the clowns show coloration variation throughout their range. The real difference is in the number of fin rays in the dorsal fin:
-A. ocellaris has 11 (but in rare individuals 10) fin rays in the dorsal fin.
-A. percula has 10 (but in rare individuals 9).

The spinous anterior portion of the dorsal fine is elevated in A. percula (3.1 - 3.3 times the length as opposed to 2.1 - 2.9 in A. ocellaris). There are black varieties of A. ocellaris around Darwin, and the standard "black margin around the white bars" description does not hold -- even in Fautin's book, although she says this is one way to tell them apart, she then has a picture of A. ocellaris with black margins. The best way to tell them apart is the location from which they were collected, because the animals have non-overlapping distributions: If the clown comes from northwestern Australia towards the base of SE Asia, it's A. ocellaris. If it comes from Northern Queensland or Maelanesia, it's A. percula."

And remember, Toonen is originally from Alberta so he must be right.

Perhaps part of the problem as well is that there are several variants of each recognized in the hobby, for A. ocellaris, the regular variant and the black variant, and for A. percula, the regular variant, the onyx variant and the Solomon Islands variant. Some individuals may believe the A. percula variants with large patches of black are the only variant of the species, and that all others are A. ocellaris.