Eastern Skunk Anemonefish

Amphiprion sandaracinos, also known as the orange skunk clownfish or orange anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is distinguished by its broad white stripe along the dorsal ridge. 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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Eastern Skunk Anemonefish, Golden Anemonefish, Golden Angelfish, Orange Anemonefish, Orange Skunk Anemonefish, Orange Skunk Clownfish, yellow clownfish, yellow skunk clownfish

Other scientific names: Amphiprion sandracinos