Allard's anemonefish
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Allard's anemonefish ( Amphiprion allardi ) |
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Allard's anemonefish ( Amphiprion allardi ) lives in the coral reefs on the coast of East Africa from Kenya to Kwazulu-Natal . The up to 14 centimeters long fish have a black to dark brown body with two wide, white or light blue horizontal stripes. The muzzle, throat, pectoral, ventral, anal and dorsal fins are yellow, the caudal fin is white. It can easily be confused with the Madagascar anemonefish ( Amphiprion latifasciatus ), whose range overlaps on the north coast of Mozambique with that of Allard's anemonefish, but which has a forked caudal fin. The orange-fin anemonefish ( Amphiprion chrysopterus ) looks very similar to Allard's anemonefish, but lives in the western Pacific.
The female is significantly larger than the male.
Allards anemonefish takes three symbiotic anemones as a partner.
- The bladder anemone ( Entacmaea quadricolor ),
- the glass bead anemone ( Heteractis aurora ),
- and Mertens anemone ( Stichodactyla mertensii )
literature
- Daphne G. Fautin, Gerald R. Allen : Anemonefish and their hosts . Tetra, Melle 1994, ISBN 3-89356-171-4
