black anemonefish

Amphiprion melanopus, also known as the cinnamon clownfish, fire clownfish, red and black anemonefish, black-backed anemonefish or dusky anemonefish is a widely distributed anemonefish chiefly found in the western and southern parts of the Pacific Ocean.. The species scientific name 'melanopus' is Greek, meaning black feet in reference to the black pelvic fins. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a strict sized based dominance hierarchy: the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male non-breeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends. They exhibit protandry, meaning the breeding male will change to female if the sole breeding female dies, with the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male.

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black anemonefish, Black Anemone-fish, Blackback Anemonefish, Black-backed Anemonefish, Chocolate clown, Cinnamon clownfish, Dusky Anemone-fish, Dusky Anemonefish, fire clownfish, red and black anemonefish, Red-and-black Anemonefish

Other scientific names: Amphiprion arion, Amphiprion monofasciatus, Amphiprion verweyi, Prochilus macrostoma, Prochilus macrostomus