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.
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Source Cinnamon Clownfish (Wikidata)
In Biome
Source Wikipedia: Cinnamon clownfish
In Ecosystem
Source Wikipedia: Cinnamon clownfish
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1. Wikipedia: Cinnamon clownfish
system (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)
Amphiprion melanopus, also known as the cinnamon clownfish, fire clownfish, red and black anemonefish, black-backed anemonefish or dusky anemonefish is a widely distributed anemonefish chiefly found in the western and southern parts of the Pacific Ocean.
Conservation status
The other threat to anemonefish is collection for the marine aquarium trade where anemonefish make up 43% of the global marine ornamental trade, and 25% of the global trade comes from fish bred in captivity, while the majority are captured from the wild, accounting for decreased densities in exploited areas.
system (entity description states it plainly, diet)
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.
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In Ecosystem: Great Barrier Reef, Distribution and habitat
A. melanopus is widely distributed in the western Pacific, from the Great Barrier Reef north to the Marshall Islands and Guam, New Guinea and from Vanuatu and New Caledonia to eastern Indonesia.
View the Source2. Cinnamon Clownfish (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q253437 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Amphiprion, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon)
View the Source 3. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Perciformes
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 96Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 96
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