anemone fish
The anemone fish (Amphiprion), after the two known species often called
clown fish, a occurring in the coral reefs of the tropical Indo-Pacific species of damselfish (Pomacentridae), living in close symbiosis with sea anemones. In this case, the individual species to live only in certain types of symbiotic anemones.
The symbiotic anemones provide the fish,
anemones, all of which are poor swimmers, protection from predators. The anemone fish protect their symbiotic partners from predators, such as butterfly fish. Assumptions, the fish would feed their partners could not be confirmed, however, are symbiotic anemones, whose partners were catched fish, eaten by moths or soon file fish. The 8:00 to 3:00 p.m. inches long feed from becoming anemone fish, zoo plankton, and some of algae.
Anemone fish to reach sexual maturity, first male. They live in polyandry, a female with several males in one or a small group of anemones. The dominant, largest animal in an anemone is always the only female. Death of the female converts, the strongest males within a week in a female.
anemone fish
The eggs are deposited near the base of the anemone. The male cleans before spawning at the base of the anemone to the substrate. After laying eggs, the eggs seven to eight days by the male cleaned the mouth and befächelt with the pectoral fins. A nest contains about 250 eggs.
After one week the larvae hatch, which then produced a plankton lifestyle, but the desire to stay as close to the place of birth. The larval stage lasts two to three weeks. Thereafter, the juveniles seek to find an anemone to the next reef.
The 27 species of the genus Amphiprion in accordance with common color patterns are grouped into five sub-species, one of which is further split into 2 groups. The Samtanemonenfisch (Premnas biaculeatus) differs by a sting on the gill covers of his relatives. With the successful crossing of the Samtanemonenfisch with Amphiprion ocellaris you have found, however, that he is related as closely with the other clownfish, the assignment is not to justify a separate genus.
The
anemone fish are within the damselfish not so prominent position, they can form an own subfamily, as in Allen, 1991. After several phylogenetic studies Amphiprion biaculeatus the basal sister species of other anemone fish or the sister species of clownfish (A. ocellaris & A. percula) and the clade formed by them is the sister group of other anemone fish. The likely ancestral relationships are again Kladogramm following: