It's a Penguin, with that orange spine that's synonymous with great books.
Translated into the material realm, this means cover designs that pay their respects to the classic orange spine of the original Penguin English Library, but modify its iconic "grid" in order to luxuriate in whole-cover retro prints.
The Picasso triggerfish I was hoping to see remained elusive, but I saw Moorish idols, orange-spine unicorn fish and one that must surely be named the Miró fish.
Gradually, we realise that writer-director McDonagh is toying with us: Boyle proves to be a thoughtful melancholic whose bookshelves are stacked with old orange Penguin spines, and enjoys listening to Chet Baker ballads.
We saw three-foot-long luminous orange iguanas with spiky spines along their backs, bright blue morpho butterflies with their wings edged in black, a white-faced capuchin monkey and the rarely sighted albino howler monkey.
"You can't find the damn books!" Every so often, Tennant's eye would alight on an orange-and-blue spine, instead of the yellow-and-black of the "Dummies" brand, and he would grimace.
Base coloration ranges from grayish brown through dark brown to blackish, but this colouring is overlaid by variegated patterns of white, yellow, orange, or black due to bands on the spines.
The dendritic shaft is colored in gray, dendritic spines in blue and the PSDs in orange.
In contrast, the Arizona sky shone deep-blue, rock formations blazed in an amazing spectrum of earth tones, sunsets glowed brilliant-orange, and cacti turned radiant in the late afternoon, their translucent spines aglow when backlit.
Most individuals also have 11 dorsal fin spines, a characteristic that often is used to distinguish the species from the orange clown anemone fish (Amphiprion percula), which is nearly identical.
