Orange Anemonefish
Amphiprion sandaracinos
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 495
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Amphiprion sandaracinos, also known as the orange skunk clownfish or orange anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is distinguished by its broad white stripe along the dorsal ridge. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a strict sized based dominance hierarchy: the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male non-breeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends. They exhibit protandry, meaning the breeding male will change to female if the sole breeding female dies, with the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Orange skunk clownfish”.