#Pink Anemonefish

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Pink anemonefish (Amphiprion perideraion) in closed anemone -

Photo by Juergen Freund

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Creature Awaits #243

Each week I plan to feature an amazing creature, admiring God's fantastic artistry. Hopefully it’ll brighten someone’s day to see something new and interesting if they haven’t seen it before. : )

As the Pantone color of the year is "Peach Fuzz", so we'll dive into the second month of this relatively new year by featuring creatures of this cozy, comforting color. : )

(Gorgeous still taken by talented photographer, Christian Gloor (CC BY 2.0 Deed))

The Pink Skunk Clownfish

A.K.A: The Pink Anemonefish

(Yes, despite the name, it's actually more peach in hue. : ) )

Scientific Name: Amphiprion perideraion

Region: Reef lagoons and slopes across the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans

Size: Up to about 3.9" (~10cm)

Interesting Notes: Unlike many anemonefish species, the Pink Skunk Clownfish, one of the smallest anemonefish, is willing to share its anemone host home with another species. : )

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Pink Skunk Anemonefish / Clownfish

By Jason Lai

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Carpet anemone

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Daily fish fact #344

Pink skunk clownfish!

Much like other clownfish, they have a layer of mucus that protects them from the sting of anemones! They're rather small, males only averaging at about 5 cm (2 inches) while females are as long as 10 cm (4 inches).

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Magnificent Anemone (Heteractis magnifica), family Stichodactylidae, East Timor

with Pink Anemonefish (Amphiprion perideraion), family Pomacentridae

photograph by Nick Hobgood

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Bleached anemone with Amphiprion perideraion, pink anemonefish #marineexplorer by John Turnbull Via Flickr: There is a small section of unbleached tentacles down the bottom of the pic. One Tree Island, Steve's Bommie

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Fiji Anemonefish

Fiji hosts several species of Anemonefish. Here are a few that I have observed. #nature #wildlife #anemonefish #sealife #lumix #ecotourism #scuba #diving #adventure

Fiji hosts five species of Anemonefish. The most common are Clark’s Anemonefish, Oragnefin Anemonefish, Pink Anemonefish, Pacific Anemonefish, and Fiji Anemonefish.

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Pink skunk anemonefish at the Cairns Aquarium in Cairns, QLD, Australia

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Father’s Day special: Under the Waves

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Our twentieth Spring Vignettes piece celebrates Father’s Day, which is on June 18th.

Before you read what the piece was intended to portray, share what it portrays to _you_. I’m just the artist; you’re the beholder.

Leave a comment.

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For those of you whose ichthyology is rusty, seahorses are known for a very unusual quirk of their reproductive biology: When mating, the female lays eggs into a specialized gestation-chamber in the male’s abdomen; and the male then carries the eggs to term inside his own body. When the eggs hatch, the male gives birth, and the itty bitty fully-formed seahorses are born into the water.

This makes seahorses a very rare example of male pregnancy in the animal kingdom, found only in seahorses and their close relatives. Why this reproductive strategy is advantageous for seahorses, and not for other fish, is debated by marine biologists.

Fatherhood, at large, is a relatively rare concept in nature; among mammals, paternal care is the exception, not the rule; but it is surprisingly common among fish. The reasons for this are debated.

Seahorses are found in coral reefs, kelp forests, and estuaries, where they can use their little prehensile tails to hold onto things. Coral reef seahorses include the yellow tigertail seahorse (Hippocampus comes), which is found in tropical coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific region. These are extremely biodiverse habitats, home to a great diversity of species.

Cnidarians are well-represented in this scene. The tiny colonial filter-feeders that build coral reefs over millennia are cnidarians; including those that form the foliate “lettuce leaf” coral in the near foreground, and the staghorn corals in the far foreground.

As for the undulated flaring fan-shaped corals in the mid-foreground, I’m afraid I may have accidentally made them up. I thought there was a coral that looked like this; but I can’t seem to find one. I may have been inspired by the flower Celosia argentea var. cristata, one cultivar of which is appropriately called “Coral Reef Celosia”. Due to its fasciation or “cresting”, this variant does have this undulated fanning shape, reminiscent of some elkhorn corals.

In the right foreground, we see several sea anemones, another cnidarian. These are probably magnificent sea anemones (Heteractis magnifica). Among the tentacles of one sea anemone, there are two pink skunk clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion). Like other anemonefish, they are symbiotic with sea anemones; living inside them for protection, without being stung, and in return cleaning the anemone of parasites, providing nitrogen, and even helping the anemone breathe and feed by moving water through it.

Anemonefish are protandrous hermaphrodites, spending the first period of their lives as males, and becoming females later in life. They live in groups consisting of a single female and a number of males, with only the largest male permitted to breed. If the female is lost, one of the largest males will become female to take her place, and the next-largest male will become the new breeding male.

A third cnidarian is found in the upper right background; several jellyfish, possibly Indonesian sea nettles (Chrysaora chinensis), about to be munched by a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas). Young green sea turtles eat a great quantity of jellyfish and other prey, whereas older green sea turtles eat various algae and aquatic plants. Due to the inward-pointing spines in their throats, green sea turtles never fail to eat their prey; but unfortunately, this also prevents them from spitting out plastic bags, which also look exactly like jellyfish.

The large school of swallow-tailed fish swimming among the kelp consists of anthias, possibly princess anthias (Pseudanthias smithvanizi). In contrast to anemonefish, anthias are protogynous hermaphrodites, spending the first period of their lives as females, and becoming males later in life. Even when they school together in large numbers, they divide themselves into small groups (or “harems”) consisting of one dominant male, several subdominant males, and a number of females. If the dominant male is lost, the subdominant males and the largest females will compete to become the next dominant male.

Behind the kelp, there is a giant pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini). They grow to be the largest octopuses, and possibly the most intelligent of all invertebrates. Female octopuses breed only once in their lives; after laying a clutch of eggs, they vigilantly guard them, clean them, and circulate water over them, not leaving them unattended even to eat; and around the time the eggs hatch, they usually die of starvation. It is extremely unusual for a solitary animal to be highly intelligent; almost all highly intelligent animals are social; but octopuses are the one curious exception. If they had the opportunity to learn from their parents, they would be unstoppable.

Finally, in the lower left foreground, there can be seen two purple sea urchins (most likely  Echinostrephus molaris). These are echinoderms, related to starfish, such as those seen in the frame. Echinoderms are notable for having bilateral symmetry as larvae, like fish and humans, but having radial symmetry as adults, like jellyfish and sea anemones. When they metamorphose, their left-hand side grows into their radially symmetrical adult body, and their right-hand side disappears.

The frame is formed out of starfish and kelp. Kelp may appear very plant-like, but it is actually a giant multicellular brown alga; not closely related to green algae or their land-dwelling plant relatives.

Parenthood certainly varies greatly from species to species. Life is unbelievably varied in every way imaginable.

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thinking. maybe blacktip grouper or pink anemonefish for courtney and some sort of wobbegong for tabitha ???? i think im good with the aquas though

thinking about the aquamagma mer au again. i might actually change the fish that they are idk if i like my choices as much anymore...........

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since pink is my favorite color, I just had to include a pink mermaid in this month's series! and, since she's based on a pink anemonefish, I wanted to draw her holding a basket of anemones <3 

please reblog if you enjoy!

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #169

Brought to you by a marine biologist who thanks all of you for reading...

CLICK HERE FOR THE AC FISH EXPLAINED MASTERPOST!

It’s always a treat to see someone stumble across one of the Fish Explained posts and then subsequently read and like or reblog a hug chunk of it. I’ve come on Tumblr to see I’ve gotten 60 messages or something and it’s literally one person. I love all of you who have done that and all those in the future who will inevitably do it. I’m so glad you love learning! 

And because we just covered the Black Clownfish the other day, I figure today is as good a time as any to cover another type of clown fish - the pink anemone fish!

This pretty little fish appeared in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp for their Sakura Class, Fishing Tourney #37 in April of 2021. Who knows if it will come back this year. 

This is another little friend from Genus Amphiprion, the anemone fish, just like the Ocellaris Clownfish. It’s more common name is the Pink Skunk Clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion), named after its pink color and the white stripe running down its back. It is part of the skunk anemone fish complex, which includes other very similar species. The Pink Skunk is particularly widespread, ranging from The Great Barrier Reef off Australia, north to some of Japans southern islands. It is most associated with coral reefs, settling into four specific kinds of anemones, one of them being the Magnificent Sea Anemone, the same species that appears in Animal Crossing New Horizons.

Pic: Samuel Chow on Wikimedia commons.

Have I ever really explained how anemone fish actually create their mutualistic relationship with the anemone of their choice? Because, though the anemone benefits from this relationship, a lot of the work is one-sided on the fish. See, anemones are close cousins of jellies, so they have those stinging cells in their tentacles, which helps them to catch prey. In order to live within theses stinging tentacles, the anemone fish have a thick mucus covering their bodies that protects them. It’s not that anemone fish don’t get stung, it’s that they just don’t care.

And there you have it. Fascinating stuff, no?

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Pink Skunk Clownfish | Amphiprion perideraion

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Anemone with Pink Fish by TerrieGray

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Did you know? There are nearly 30 species of clownfish! Here’s one you may not know: the pink skunk clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion). Also known as the pink anemonefish, it can be found in parts of the Indo-Pacific where, like other clownfish species, it has an affinity for anemones. The anemone's poisonous tentacles offer protection to the clownfish, which takes refuge from predators (and is itself protected from its host's stings thanks to a layer of mucus). In turn, the fish aggressively defends its host from other fish and cleans off parasites. Photo: François Libert, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr #AnimalFacts #clownfish #anemone #OceanLife #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLyuvcLlHD/?utm_medium=tumblr