Orange anemonefish
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Orange anemonefish ( Amphiprion sandaracinos ) |
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The orange anemonefish ( Amphiprion sandaracinos ) lives in the coral reefs of Indonesia , the Philippines , Taiwan , the Ryūkyū Islands , northern and western New Guinea , northwestern Australia , Christmas Island and the Solomon Islands . It was bred in the aquarium .
The fish accept two symbiotic anemone species as partners.
- The leather anemone ( Heteractis crispa )
- and Mertens anemone ( Stichodactyla mertensii )
features
The body and fins are orange. A white longitudinal stripe begins at the snout and runs along the base of the dorsal fin to the caudal peduncle. The dorsal fin has nine hard and 16 to 18 soft rays, the anal fin has two hard and twelve soft rays. Amphiprion sandaracinos becomes up to 13 centimeters long.
It is very similar to the white-backed anemonefish ( Amphiprion akallopisos ) and differs from this in the different number of fin spines, the orange caudal fin, which is white in the white-backed anemonefish, and the broader white longitudinal stripe on the head. The teeth of the orange anemonefish are conical, while those of Amphiprion akallopisos are incisor teeth. In the wild, both fish species can only be confused on the coasts of Java and southeastern Sumatra, as the areas of distribution only overlap there.
literature
- Dapne G. Fautin, Gerald R Allen: Anemonefish and their hosts , Tetra-Verlag (1994), ISBN 3-89356-171-4
Web links
- Orange anemonefish on Fishbase.org (English)
- Amphiprion sandaracinos inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Curtis-Quick, J., 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2014.