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The orange clownfish (Amphiprion percula) also known as percula clownfish and clown anemonefish, is widely known as a popular aquarium fish. Like other clownfishes (also known as anemonefishes), it often lives in association with sea anemones .
Thirty species of clownfish are recognized: one in the genus Premnas, while the remaining are in the genus Amphiprion. In the wild, they all form symbiotic mutualisms with sea anemones. Depending on the species, anemonefish are overall yellow, orange, or a reddish or blackish color, and many show white bars or patches.
The common clownfish is a small fish which grows up to 11 cm (4.3 inches). [4] Its body has a stocky appearance and oval shape. It is compressed laterally, with a round profile. The coloration of its body is orange to reddish-brown, but it can also be black in some particular areas such as the Northern Territory in Australia.
This clownfish is tricky to tell apart from the false percula (or ocellaris), but it has a thicker black outline to its stripes and more orange in the eyes, as well as 10 (rather than 11) dorsal ...
The Maldive anemonefish is a small fish which grows up to 11 cm as a female and 8 cm as a male. [4] It is oval-bodied and laterally compressed. [5]This clownfish is characterized by its rusty orange color with a single white stripe running vertically just behind the eye.
An orange tail indicates breeding success. The males have orange on their tails while the females do not. This fish is hardy and aggressive. 8.5 cm (3.3 in) Blue and gold damsel: Pomacentrus coelestis: Yes [49]: 215 9 cm (3.5 in) Blue velvet damsel: Paraglyphidodon oxyodon: Yes: 15 cm (5.9 in) Blueback damsel: Pomacentrus simsiang: Yes [49]: 216
Clownfish are small-sized, 10–18 centimetres (3.9–7.1 in), and depending on species, they are overall yellow, orange, or a reddish or blackish color, and many show white bars or patches. Within species there may be color variations, most commonly according to distribution, but also based on sex, age and host anemone.
Amphiprion percula (Lacepède, 1802) (Orange clownfish) Amphiprion perideraion Bleeker, 1855 (Pink anemonefish) Amphiprion polymnus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Saddleback clownfish) Amphiprion rubrocinctus Richardson, 1842 (Red Anemonefish) Amphiprion sandaracinos Allen, 1972 (Yellow clownfish) Amphiprion sebae Bleeker, 1853 (Sebae anemonefish)