Clown fish

The pink skunk clownfish, also known as the pink anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is widespread from northern Australia through the Malay Archipelago and Melanesia. Like all anemonefishes, it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a strict size-based dominance hierarchy; the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male nonbreeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends. They exhibit protandry, meaning the breeding male changes to female if the sole breeding female dies, with the largest nonbreeder becoming the breeding male.

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Clown fish, False Skunk-striped Anemonefish, False Skunkstriped Anemonefish, False Skunk Striped Anemonefish, False Skunk Striped Clown, pink anemonefish, Pink Skunk Anemonefish, pink skunk clown, Pink Skunk Clownfish, salmon clownfish, whitebanded anemonefish, White-maned Anemonefish

Other scientific names: Amphiprion amamiensis, Amphiprion peridaeraion, Amphiprion perideraeus, Amphiprion rosenbergi, Amphiprion rosenbergii, Prochilus perideraion, Prochilus rosenbergi