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Most anemones are treated as sessile, but the ones inhabited by anemonefish are in fact motile. [4] Zooxanthellae are obligate symbionts within the anemone. S. gigantea hosts 7 different species of anemonefish Amphiprion akindynos (Barrier reef anemonefish) A. bicinctus (Two-band anemonefish) A. clarkii (Clark's anemonefish) A. ocellaris (False ...
The species' most closely related ancestor is Amphiprion percula, the orange clownfish. It is thought that A. ocellaris specialized after diverging from the genus Premnas, and scientific evidence confirms that all clownfish belonging to the genus Amphiprion initially could withstand the stings of only one type of anemone; after further ...
This is known as the ocellaris clownfish and sometimes referred to as the "false percula clownfish" or "common clownfish" due to its similar color and pattern. The "easiest" way to distinguish the two species is the fact that A. percula has 10 spines in the first dorsal fin (rarely having 9) and A. ocellaris has 11 (rarely 10), which is a more ...
The clown fish eats the dead tentacles and keeps the anemone healthy. The anemone receives the benefit of being able to eat the feces of the clown fish as well. In return, the clown fish has a ...
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Amphiprion ocellaris Cuvier, 1830 (Clown anemonefish) Amphiprion omanensis Allen & Mee, 1991 (Oman anemonefish) Amphiprion pacificus Allen, Drew & Fenner, 2010 (Pacific anemonefish) Amphiprion percula (Lacepède, 1802) (Orange clownfish) Amphiprion perideraion Bleeker, 1855 (Pink anemonefish) Amphiprion polymnus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Saddleback ...
The sea anemone protects the clownfish from predators, as well as providing food through the scraps left from the anemone's meals and occasional dead anemone tentacles. In return, the clownfish defends the anemone from its predators, and parasites. [4] Clownfish are small-sized, 10–18 centimetres (3.9–7.1 in), and depending on species, they ...
Bennett had stumbled on a rare and “highly venomous” species of sea anemone: Dofleinia armata, also known as the armed anemone or striped anemone, she wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post.