Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Pomacentridae > Amphiprion > Amphiprion leucokranos

Amphiprion leucokranos (Whitebonnet anemonefish; White-bonnet Anemonefish; White-bonnett anemonefish)

Synonyms: Amphiprion leucocranos; Amphiprion leucokranus
Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Amphiprion leucokranos (White bonnet anemonefish) is a naturally occurring hybrid anemonefish found in the western central Pacific Ocean. 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 dominance hierarchy, features which are which are critical to the direction of gene flow.
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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