Anemonefishes need the protection they find in their anemones: the anemones' stings keep fish predators at bay, and an anemonefish never lives without its host anemone. The partnership may benefit the anemones, as well.
Anemonefish care for their spawn by fanning the eggs with their fins, removing litter or dead eggs using their mouths with great precision, and keeping other fish away.
Conservation Status/Additional Comments ...
Clown Anemonefish Range
Fast Facts
Type: Fish Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 6 to 10 years Size: 4.3 in (11 cm) Group name: School Did you know?
False Clown Anemonefish Amphiprion ocellaris
The most surprising thing about the false clown anemonefish is its home. It lives inside a giant stinging anemone.
Dusky anemonefish
Class: Actinopterygii
Status: IUCN: Not Listed; CITES: Not Listed
Emerald tree boa ...
Anemonefish/clownfish - Received from Walkner in Rio de Janeiro
Q: Clownfish produce a mucus which covers their body and protects them from anemones. I'd like to know how this mucus is created and which gland produces this hormone. ...
Anemonefishes, comprised by the genera Amphiprion and Premnas, have a highly evolved relationship with sea anemones. They remain undisturbed by contact with anemone tentacles that would be fatal to other small fish.
A Barrier Reef Anemonefish at Great Detached Reef
A Bartail Goatfish at Moreton Bay
A Bartail Goatfish at Pulau Paku Kecil
A Bastard Trumpeter at Cronulla
A Beaked Coralfish at Palau Redang
A Beaked Coralfish at the Great Barrier Reef ...
barrier reef anemonefish (Amphiprion akindynos)
beaked coralfish (Chelmon rostratus)
Bennet's butterfly (Chaetodon bennetti)
bicolor angel (Centropyge bicolor)
bicolor blenny (Ecsenius bicolor)
bicolor dottyback (Pictichromis diadema) ...
The clown fish (also known as the anemonefish) is a small species of fish that is found around tropical coral reefs.
We know less about small species like the anemonefish than larger animals.
Waves Break Coral Embryo into Identical Twins
Cloning helps corals colonize habitats far and wide ...
SUBORDER LABROIDEI
Includes cichlids, surfperches, damselfishes, anemonefishes, wrasses, parrotfishes
CICHLIDS
SERGEANT MAJOR ...
 See also: Coral, Shark, Prion, Angelfish, Parrot
  
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