Global InformationMaroon clownfish information
| Maroon clownfish | |
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Conservation status
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 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | Pomacentridae |
| Subfamily: | Amphiprioninae |
| Genus: | Premnas Cuvier, 1816 |
| Species: | P. biaculeatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Premnas biaculeatus (Bloch, 1790)
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| Synonyms | |
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Chaetodon biaculeatus Bloch, 1790 | |
Premnas biaculeatus, commonly known as spine-cheeked anemonefish or the maroon clownfish, is a species of anemonefish found in the Indo-Pacific from western Indonesia to Taiwan and the Great Barrier Reef.[2] They can grow up to be about 17 cm (6.7 in).[3] 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 size-based dominance hierarchy; the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male nonbreeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends.[4] They exhibit protandry, meaning the breeding male changes to female if the sole breeding female dies, with the largest nonbreeder becoming the breeding male.[5] The fish's natural diet includes algae and zooplankton.[3]
- ^ Allen, G.R.; Arceo, H.; Mutia, M.T.M.; Muyot, F.B. & Nañola, C.L. & Santos (2022). "Amphiprion biaculeatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T188480A1881366. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T188480A1881366.en. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ Lieske, E., and R. Myers. 1999. Coral Reef Fishes. ISBN 0-691-02659-9
- ^ a b Tristan Lougher (2006). What Fish?: A Buyer's Guide to Marine Fish. Interpet Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84286-118-9.
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