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Amphiprion polymnus Saddleback clownfish      

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 polymnus (Linnaeus, 1758) - saddleback clownfish

Fishbase Information (FISHBASE.ORG)

Saddleback clownfish 

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

reef-associated; non-migratory; marine; depth range 2 - 30 m

tropical; 30°N - 25°S

Western Pacific: Ryukyu Islands, China, Viet Nam, Taiwan, Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia (Northern Territory, Gulf of Carpentaria), New Guinea, New Britain, and Solomon Islands.

Dorsal spines(total): 10-11; Dorsal soft rays(total): 16-18; Analspines: 2; Analsoft rays: 12-14. Distinguished by the third white band on the tail that is missing or as a saddle-like marking in A. sebae. Some geographical variations and in PNG often with much orange ventrally (Ref. 48636).

Inhabits silty lagoons and harbors. Has been reared in captivity (Ref. 35420, 35423). Associated with the anemones: Heteractis crispa and Stichodactyla haddoni (Ref. 5911).

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