brownsaddle clownfish

Amphiprion polymnus, also known as the saddleback clownfish or yellowfin anemonefish, is a black and white species of anemonefish with a distinctive saddle. 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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brownsaddle clownfish, Clown fish, Panda Clownfish, Saddleback Anemonefish, Saddle Back Clown, saddleback clownfish, White-tipped Anemonefish, yellowfinned anemonefish, Yellow-finned Anemone-fish

Other scientific names: Amphiprion bifasciatus, Amphiprion intermedius, Amphiprion laticlavius, Amphiprion polynemus, Amphiprion trifasciatus, Anthias bifasciatus, Coracinus seu Sciaena unimaculata, Coracinus unimaculata, Lutjanus jourdin, Paramphiprion hainanensis, Perca polymna, Sciaena unimaculata