Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Pomacentridae > Amphiprion > Amphiprion polymnus

Amphiprion polymnus (yellowfinned anemonefish; Brownsaddle clownfish; Panda clownfish; Saddle back clown; Saddleback anemonefish; Saddleback clownfish; White-tipped anemonefish; Yellow-finned anemone-fish; Clown fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

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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Infraspecies

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Ecosystems

Providers

Shelter 
Heteractis crispa (Sebae anemone)[1]
Stichodactyla haddoni (Green saddle anemone)[1]

External References

Citations

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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