Skunk Clown
Juvenile orange skunk clownfish have a transparent or whitish tail but as they grow the tail turn an orange color.
Skunk clown. One in the genus premnas while the remaining are in the genus amphiprion in the wild they all form symbiotic mutualisms with sea anemones depending on species anemonefish are overall yellow orange or a reddish or blackish color and many show white bars or patches. This fish is similar in color to the pink skunk clown but it also lacks the vertical head bars behind the eyes. The orange tail is an easy way to distinguish adult specimens of the orange skunk clownfish from the skunk clownfish and pink skunk clownfish since these other species have a white or light colored caudal tail fin.
The captive bred pink skunk clownfish is a bit more challenging to spawn and rear than other clownfish species in the home aquarium but with some effort can be accomplished by the dedicated marine aquarist. Mike fishlore admin social media. Amphiprion perideraion also known as the pink skunk clownfish or pink anemonefish is a species of anemonefish from the skunk complex that is widespread from northern australia through the malay archipelago and melanesia.
Updated august 6 2019 author. The following types of clownfish are not the common ones you are more likely to find in your local fish shops. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title skunk clownfish.
The top stripe is narrow on this species and it forms a point that ends shortly before the mouth. In the wild pink skunk clownfish are known to hybridize with the skunk clownfish a. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a.
Skunk clownfish can refer to. It s probably the most interesting and unique out of the other six complexes. The pink skunk clownfish gets their common name because they have pink bodies with a white skunk like stripe running the top length of their body from mouth to tail.
As with other anemonefish the skunk clownfish is a protandrous hemaphrodite and maintains a hierarchy within the host anemone that consists of a mating pair of. The skunk complex is the second largest type of clownfish after the clarkii. The skunk clownfish is a light pinkish orange color with a single narrow white stripe running from the mouth to the back of the tail fin and can grow as large as 11 cm in length.
Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host. If an internal link led you here you may wish to change the link to point directly to the.
