Cinnamon Clownfish

The cinnamon clownfish (Amphiprion melanopus), also known as the fire clownfish or red and black anemonefish, ranges across the western and southern Pacific from Australia's Great Barrier Reef north to the Marshall Islands and Guam and through New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and eastern Indonesia. Its species name comes from the Greek for black feet, referring to its dark pelvic fins, and adults reach about 12 centimeters with a dark red to mahogany body, a white headband tinted faintly blue, cinnamon colored dorsal and tail fins, and black pelvic and anal fins. It is omnivorous, feeding on zooplankton, small bottom dwelling crustaceans, and algae, and like other anemonefish it lives in a protected symbiosis with sea anemone hosts.