White banded anemonefish
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White- banded anemonefish ( Amphiprion latezonatus ) |
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The white- banded anemonefish ( Amphiprion latezonatus ) occurs on the coasts of northern New South Wales in southern Queensland , near New Caledonia and on the reefs of Lord Howe Island in water depths of 10 to 45 meters. He lives with the leather anemone ( Heteractis crispa ) as a symbiotic partner .
features
The white-banded anemonefish becomes 11 to 14 centimeters long. The length is 1.9 to 2.1 times the body height. It is colored dark brown. On each side of the head there is a white horizontal stripe behind the eye. A wide, very wide, white horizontal stripe runs across the middle of the body. This stripe, which is twice as wide as that of other anemonefish species, makes the white-banded anemonefish unmistakable. The tail fin stalk also has a white ribbon. The caudal fin is dark brown, the end white, as is the snout region. The hard-radiating part of the dorsal fin and the throat can have a slight orange tinge.
The dorsal fin has ten to eleven hard and 15 to 16 soft rays, the anal fin has two hard and 12 to 14 soft rays. The pectoral fins are supported by 19 to 20 fin rays. On the first gill arch there are 18 to 20 gill trap processes. The sideline is accompanied by 34 to 38 scales.
literature
- Gerald R. Allen : Damselfish of the World , Mergus Verlag Melle, 1991, ISBN 3-88244-007-4
- Daphne G. Fautin, Gerald R. Allen: Anemonefish and their hosts , Tetra-Verlag (1994), ISBN 3-89356-171-4
Web links
- White-banded anemonefish on Fishbase.org (English)