Chagos anemonefish
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Chagos anemonefish in a corkscrew anemone ( Macrodactyla doreensis ) |
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| Amphiprion chagosensis | ||||||||||||
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The Chagos anemonefish ( Amphiprion chagosensis ) occurs only on the coast of the Chagos Archipelago in water depths of 10 to 25 meters. As a habitat he prefers the outer reefs, less lagoons or the reef roof. The species has been described using specimens caught near Diego Garcia . It is unknown with which sea anemone it lives in symbiosis .
features
The Chagos anemonefish grows to eight to ten centimeters long. The length is 1.8 to 1.9 times the body height. It is brownish-orange in color. A white horizontal stripe runs directly behind the eye over the head, another, narrower one runs from the indentation between the spiked and the soft-rayed part of the dorsal fin to in front of the anal fin . The pelvic fins are blackish, the caudal fin is transparent.
The dorsal fin has ten to eleven hard and 15 to 17 soft rays, the anal fin has two hard and 13 to 14 soft rays. The pectoral fins are supported by 18 to 20 fin rays. There are 17 to 20 gill trap processes on the first gill arch . The sideline is accompanied by 36 to 43 scales.
literature
- Gerald R. Allen : Damselfish of the World , Mergus Verlag Melle, 1991, ISBN 3-88244-007-4
- Dapne G. Fautin, Gerald R. Allen: Anemonefish and their hosts , Tetra-Verlag (1994), ISBN 3-89356-171-4
Web links
- Chagos anemonefish on Fishbase.org (English)