- Habitat
- Reef
- Max size
- 20 cm
- Depth
- 1-70 m
- Family
- Pomacentridae
Clark's anemonefish, also known as the yellowtail clownfish, is a marine fish belonging to the family Pomacentridae, the clownfishes and damselfishes. 28 species of anemonefish live within the Pomacentridae family.
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Easily confused with
Side by side, with what tells them apart.
Both are orange and dark with two white bars. Barrier Reef Anemonefish is an even orange-brown, its bars are edged with a thin black line, and its whole tail is white. Clark's Anemonefish is darker on the back than on the belly, and its tail fin is usually yellow.
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Both are dark with two white bars and orange-yellow fins. Clark's Anemonefish has a white band around the base of its tail, just before the fin, and an orange-yellow belly and snout. Orange-fin Anemonefish has no white at the tail base -- only the two bars -- and a dark brown flank edged with yellow, with bright orange fins.
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Both are orange and black with a white bar behind the eye. Cinnamon Clownfish has only that one bar, wide and sometimes tinged blue, on a red-orange body with dark mahogany flanks, and its pelvic and anal fins are black. Clark's Anemonefish has a second white bar across the middle of the body, a white band at the base of the tail, and an orange-yellow tail.
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