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Maroon Clownfish

Amphiprioninae

The Maroon Clownfish is a bright orange fish with white stripes. It loves to live in sea anemones, where it finds safety from predators.

Habitat: Coral reefs

Appearance

The Maroon Clownfish has a striking, deep reddish-brown body with a single, broad white stripe located just behind its eye. Its fins often show a lighter orange or yellow edge, making it distinct from other clownfish species.

KingdomAnimaliaPhylumChordataClassActinopterygiiOrderPerciformesFamilyPomacentridaeGenusAmphiprion

Maroon Clownfish

Interesting facts

Maroon Clownfish wiggle against their anemone home, slowly building immunity to its powerful stings.

Predators often avoid Maroon Clownfish because they know the fish lives inside a stinging sea anemone!

The biggest Maroon Clownfish in a group is always the female, and all young are born male!

They sometimes bring food scraps back to their anemone, helping to feed their stinging home!

Special abilities

Maroon Clownfish can swim safely among stinging anemone tentacles because they have a special mucus coating, protecting them from the anemone's venom.

Maroon Clownfish have the amazing ability to change from male to female if the dominant female in their group dies, ensuring reproduction continues.

Maroon Clownfish can live safely within the stinging tentacles of sea anemones, which provides them with excellent protection from predators.

Measurements & details

Length: 10-17 cm
Weight: 0.05-0.15 kg
Lifespan: 6-15 years
Swim Speed: 2 km/h
Max Depth: 40 m
Water Type: Saltwater

Diet & Feeding

They munch on tiny algae, zooplankton, and sometimes leftovers from their anemone home.

Primary Foods

algae
zooplankton
copepods
fish eggs
anemone leftovers

Foraging Method

Foraging

Ecological connections

symbiotic with

Bubble-tip Anemone

Entacmaea quadricolor

gains protection from its stinging tentacles

symbiotic with

Magnificent Sea Anemone

Heteractis magnifica

provides a safe home for the clownfish

eaten by

Coral Grouper

Cephalopholis miniata

a common reef predator that hunts small fish

Traits

Striped

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