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Like the clownfish, the anemone fish is a
member of the Pomacentridae family, the Amphiprioninae
subfamily. The species of anemone fish are the Orange-fin
anemone fish, the Barrier Reef anemone fish, the Spine-cheek
anemone fish, the Blue-lip anemone fish, the Red and Black
anemone fish, the False-Clown anemone fish, the Pink anemone
fish, the Clown anemone fish and the McCulloch's anemone fish.
All these species have in common the fact that they live in a
symbiosis with the sea anemones. While some anemone fish can
co-exists with one or more sea anemones` species, having
immunity to the poison from their tentacles but being affected
by the other sea anemone's poison, the other anemone fish
species can co-exists with other species of sea anemones. The
anemone fish have a common way of living but they are of
different body shapes, colors, as well as different independence
degree towards their host. The Orange-fin anemone fish, for
example, has a brown or black body which has two blue or white
bars. His tail is white and his fin is yellow-orange. The
Orange-fin anemone fish` s diet is made from algae and
zooplankton and he can be seen among some anemones’ tentacles.
The Clown anemone fish has an orange body with white bars; his
fins have black markings. This fish eats the same things with
the Orange-fin anemone fish and the tentacles of two anemone
fish species are his home. The Spine-cheek anemone fish has a
red-brown body with white bands and below his eyes is a long
spine. His diet is not different from the one of the clown
anemone fish and orange-fin anemone fish. He lives among the
Entacmaea quadricolor tentacles. In the waters of the Egyptian
resorts are beautiful anemone fish that you can see by diving. |
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