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  2. Clownfish - Wikipedia

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    In Disney Pixar's 2003 film Finding Nemo and its 2016 sequel Finding Dory main characters Nemo, his father Marlin, and his mother Coral are clownfish from the species A. ocellaris. [39] The popularity of anemonefish for aquaria increased following the film's release; it is the first film associated with an increase in the numbers of those ...

  3. Ocellaris clownfish - Wikipedia

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    The species Amphiprion ocellaris belongs to the class Actinopterygii which contains bony Teleost fish and other ray-finned fish. A. ocellaris is the most basal species in the genus Amphiprion which is closely related to the genus Premnas. The species' most closely related ancestor is Amphiprion percula, the orange clownfish.

  4. Dory (Finding Nemo) - Wikipedia

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    Nemo and Marlin get the fish to break free from the net and rescue Dory by swimming down. Nemo was injured after the net fell down but gets back up after Marlin tells him about his and Dory's adventure. Dory is eventually guided to Marlin and Nemo's reef by Bruce and his shark club, to which she agreed to be a part of.

  5. What kind of fish is Dory? Everything to know about the fish ...

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    Dory, the small blue fish with a bad memory from the "Finding Nemo" franchise, is a blue tang, or a Paracanthurus hepatus in scientific terms. Native to the Indo-Pacific and found in coral reefs ...

  6. Cinnamon clownfish - Wikipedia

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    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. [2].

  7. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes - Wikipedia

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    Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer.

  8. Sequential hermaphroditism - Wikipedia

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    Protogyny is the most common form of hermaphroditism in fish in nature. [30] About 75% of the 500 known sequentially hermaphroditic fish species are protogynous and often have polygynous mating systems. [31] [32] In these systems, large males use aggressive territorial defense to dominate female mating.

  9. Orange skunk clownfish - Wikipedia

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    Amphiprion sandaracinos, also known as the orange skunk clownfish or orange anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is distinguished by its broad white stripe along the dorsal ridge. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone.