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Amphiprion frenatus Tomato clownfish      
MS
Kingdom - Animalia - animals
   Phylum - Chordata - chordates
      Subphylum - Vertebrata - vertebrates
         Superclass - Osteichthyes - peixe ósseo
            Class - Actinopterygii - poissons à nageoires rayonnées
               Subclass - Neopterygii - neopterygians
                  Infraclass - Teleostei
                     Superorder - Acanthopterygii
                        Order - Perciformes - perch-like fishes
                           Suborder - Labroidei - poissons-perroquets
                              Family - Pomacentridae - sergents
                                 Genus - Amphiprion (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) - anemonefishes
                                    Species - Amphiprion frenatus (Brevoort, 1856) - red clown

Fishbase Information (FISHBASE.ORG)

Tomato clownfish 

14.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 9710)

reef-associated; non-migratory; marine; depth range 1 - 12 m

tropical; 25°N - 35°S

Western Pacific: Gulf of Thailand to southwestern Palau, north to southern Japan, south to Java, Indonesia.

Dorsal spines(total): 9-10; Dorsal soft rays(total): 16-18; Analspines: 2; Analsoft rays: 13-15. Overall color is orange, with a black-edged bar just behind the head. Body sometimes black especially in older individuals. A second black-edged white bar may be at mid-body.

Found in lagoon reefs and embayments. Has been reared in captivity (Ref. 35413, 35415, 35418, 35420). Associated with the anemone Entacmaea quadricolor (Ref. 5911).

Fishbase Credit - Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2005.FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (06/2005).