The Clownfish A presentation by Taylor Cartwright and Caleb Brown

I…

•Have an orange color, and show white bars or patches.•Can reach a length of 18 centimeters, while the smallest barely can reach 10 centimeters.

HABITAT AND LOCATION •Where I live.

I am…

•Native to warmer waters, like that of the Indian Ocean and Pacific

Oceans.

•At the bottom of shallow seas or lagoons in sheltered reefs.

•NOT located in the Atlantic ocean.

DIET What I eat.

I …• Am omnivorous and can feed on undigested food from my host anemones• primarily feed on small zooplankton from the water column, such as copepods and tunicate larvae, with a small portion of algae.• may also consume the tentacles of their host anemone.

SURVIVAL What eats …me.

I AM…•prey for a number of fish such as:

sharks stingraysother larger bony fishes.

•While my eggs are susceptible to predators, they are attached to a substrate that is protected by the anemone's stinging tentacles.

REPRODUCTION ... How I make more of me.

My Reproduction there are only two individuals that reproduce within my group. The non-breeding individuals progressively decrease in size further down the hierarchy. We are hermaphrodites which means that we develop into males first and then potentially into females later. The warm tropical waters where I live allows for year-round spawning.

FUN FACTS

Ironically, Finding Nemo, a movie about the anguish of a captured clownfish, caused home-aquarium demand for them to triple

Bibliography http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/clown-anemonefish

/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiprioninae