- English Common Name:
- Clownfish
- Scientific name
- Amphiprioninae
- Taxonomy
- Order: Perciformes, Family: Pomacentridae
- Size
- About 7 cm – 8 cm
- Species Distribution
- South of Chiba prefecture
- Okinawan Common Name
- Inubi (general name for clownfish)
- Japan Red List of Threatened Species: Near Threatened (※ Amphiprion sandaracinos)
- Japan Red List of Threatened Species: Data Deficient (※ Amphiprion polymnus)
- To protect from its enemies, Clownfish forms a school living in a symbiotic relationship (a relationship that is beneficial to each other) with anemones. A school consists of one female and multiple males. If female is lost in the school for some reason, one male turns to a female. Different species of clownfish choose different species of anemones to live together.
Amphiprion clarkia and Heteractis crispa
Amphiprion clarkia and Stichodactyla haddoni
Amphiprion frenatus and Entacmaea quadricolor
Amphiprion polymnus and Stichodactyla haddoni
Amphiprion perideraion and Heteractis crispa
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- Updated August 2017