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Magnificent Sea Anemone

Heteractis magnifica

Description:

Found in the Indo-pacific area. It is often found in association [symbiotic relationship] with anemonefish, or clownfish, such as the cinnamon anemonefish (Amphiprion melanopus), Clark's anemonefish (A. clarkii), common clownfish (A. ocellaris), blackfinned anemonefish (A. nigripes), true clownfish (A. percula), and the pink skunk clownfish (A. perideraion). Juvenile Threespot dascyllus (Dascyllus trimaculatus) also commonly associate with this sea anemone.

Habitat:

Marine Benthos

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2 Comments

SamanthaCraven
SamanthaCraven 13 years ago

....I can try!

lori.tas
lori.tas 13 years ago

Also cool.

If you're a marine biologist, does this mean I can start posting reef fish and you can identify them for me? That would be great since I've only been able to identify a few of them.

SamanthaCraven
Spotted by
SamanthaCraven

Malaysia

Spotted on Apr 23, 2009
Submitted on Mar 24, 2011

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