Entry: Fish Finder Fact Thursday, August 21, 2003



Pink Anemonefish
Amphiprion perideraion Bleeker, 1855


The Pink Anemonefish is pinkish-orange with a white bar down either side of the face, and a white stripe along the back. It has a white caudal fin.

This species grows to 10cm in length.

The Pink Anemonefish inhabits coral reefs and is usually associated with the anemone Heteractis magnifica. It is sometimes seen associated with three other anemones: Heteractis crispa, Mactodactyls doreenis and Stichodactyla gigantea. Usually one adult pair and several juveniles are present in each anemone.

It is found in depths from 3m to 30m.

Pink Anemonefish feed on benthic algae and zooplankton.

This fish occurs in tropical marine waters of the Western Central Pacific, from the Philippine Islands, north to Japan, throughout Micronesia, south to Australia and east to the Samoan Islands.

In Australia it is known from northwestern coast of Western Australia and from the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.

 

 


Pink Anemonefish
All images: Are Of A Pink Anenoe Fish Photographed by E.Schloegl
Pink Anemonefish
The fish is in the water at about
a depth of 10m, Off the Great Detached Reef, far northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, November 2001.
Pink Anemonefish

View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.

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