POMACENTRIDAE


Amphiprion clarkii
(photo by Mark Strickland)



Amphiprion clarkii, 6.3 cm SL
(from North Sulawesi, Indonesia; photo by Seishi Kimura)


Amphiprion clarkii
(Bennett, 1830)
Clark's Anemonefish

D X-XI, 14-17; A II, 12-15; P1 18-21; LLp 34-45.

Body moderately deep and compressed. Opercle, subopercle, preopercle and interopercle serrate. Teeth on jaws uniserial. Caudal fin weakly emarginate; no conspicuous projecting spine-like rays at upper and lower edges of caudal-fin base. Color: ground color variable from reddish yellow to blackish; three white bars on head and body. Size: 8.5 cm SL. Distribution: Java Sea, Andaman Sea and Indian Ocean. Remarks: found in coral reefs; symbiotically associated with anemones Heteractis magnifica and Stichodactyla mertensii.