Mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic, and fabulously exotic, the huge variety of types of saltwater fish to pick for your aquarium will ...

Anemones associate with many fish species, but they are particularly close with one group. Clownfish, also known as anemonefish, are immune to anemone stings, though scientists aren't exactly sure how ...

Like most of their damselfish kin, clown anemonefish (more commonly known as "clownfish" -- Amphiprion percula) are fiercely territorial. While many damsels cultivate and guard tiny algae gardens ...

I’ve written about why some reef dwelling fishes, particularly clownfish or anemonefish, are striped and how the direction of their stripes — vertical or horizontal — predicts their ...

Among scientists and aquarists, clownfish are also known as anemonefish because they can't survive without a host anemone, whose stinging tentacles protect them and their developing eggs from ...

Closely resembling the iconic clown fish from the Pixar movie Finding Nemo, this is actually a Maldivian anemonefish, nestled in a magnificent sea anemone. Image credit: Baros Maldives Welcome to ...

This area is known for high levels of endemic species that are only found in a very specific geographic area including the Red Sea anemonefish and picasso triggerfish. Of the roughly 2,100 known ...

Oct. 16, 2024 — From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows ...

They know that the hawksbill's vulnerability is his eyes. The Clark's anemonefish attack anything threatening their anemone, including us. They can bite you hard enough to draw blood. The ...

An ecosystem has diverse living organisms. In the study of Ecology, these living organisms are categorized on the basis of the level of organization. So at the basic numbers level we have the ...