Photo: Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 13 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, in anemones
The orange-fin anemonefish lives in a sea anemone that it is protected from its stings by a special layer of mucus. Anemonefish are born male; the largest of the group becomes female, and if she disappears, the dominant male changes sex.
Did you know?
As in the film « Nemo », the clownfish lives as a pair in its anemone. In Tahitian it is called ʻatoti.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Poisson-clown à nageoires orange.
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