Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Pomacentridae > Amphiprion > Amphiprion perideraion

Amphiprion perideraion (White-maned anemonefish; Whitebanded anemonefish; Salmon clownfish; Pink skunk clown; Pink anemonefish; False skunk-striped anemonefish; False skunkstriped anemonefish; False skunk striped clown; Clown fish; Pink skunk anemonefish)

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Language: Danish; Fijian; Gela; Japanese; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Samoan; Swedish; Tagalog

Wikipedia Abstract

Amphiprion perideraion also known as the pink skunk clownfish or pink anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish from the skunk complex 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 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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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Reef, Coastal
Diet [1]  Omnivore, Planktivore

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Ecosystems

Providers

Shelter 
Heteractis crispa (Sebae anemone)[2]
Heteractis magnifica (Magnificent sea anemone)[2]
Macrodactyla doreensis (Long tentacle anemone)[2]
Stichodactyla gigantea (Giant carpet anemone)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Derogenes pearsoni[3]
Hysterolecitha nahaensis[4]
Mitotrema anthostomatum[4]
Schikhobalotrema pomacentri[4]
Thulinia microrchis[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2Clownfish and their Host Anemones ;; NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program
3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0