Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Pomacentridae > Amphiprion > Amphiprion sandaracinos

Amphiprion sandaracinos (Eastern skunk anemonefish; Golden anemonefish; Golden angelfish; Orange anemonefish; Skunk anemonefish; Yellow clownfish; Yellow skunk clownfish)

Synonyms: Amphiprion sandracinos
Language: Danish; Japanese; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Maranao/Samal/Tao Sug; Visayan

Wikipedia Abstract

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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Heteractis crispa (Sebae anemone)[1]
Stichodactyla mertensii (Merten's carpet sea anemone)[1]

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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