Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Pomacentridae > Amphiprion > Amphiprion rubrocinctus

Amphiprion rubrocinctus (Australian anemonefish; Northwest anemonefish; Red Anemonefish; Redgirdled anemonefish)

Synonyms: Amphiprion ruppelii; Amphiprion tricolor
Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Amphiprion rubrocinctus, also known as the Australian or red anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is endemic to north west Australia. 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. The fish's natural diet includes zooplankton.
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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