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  • Spine-cheek Clownfish, 1 of 6
    Photo 1 of 6

    (c) Arial Simpson, all rights reserved

  • Spine-cheek Clownfish, 2 of 6
    Photo 2 of 6

    (c) Ian Shaw, all rights reserved

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    Photo 3 of 6

    (c) terence zahner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 4 of 6

    (c) greyloch, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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    (c) Tsu Soo Tan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 6 of 6

    (c) Barry Peters`, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Spine-cheek Clownfish

Amphiprion biaculeatus

Worldwide
1,853 observations
Group
Fish

About

Amphiprion biaculeatus, commonly known as spine-cheeked anemonefish or the maroon clownfish, is a species of anemonefish found in the Indo-Pacific from western Indonesia to Taiwan and the Great Barrier Reef. They can grow up to be about 17 cm (6.7 in). Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a strict size-based dominance hierarchy; the female is largest,

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