Red saddleback anemonefish

Glühkohlen Anemonefish (Amphiprion ephippium )

The Glühkohlen Anemonefish (Amphiprion ephippium ) lives in the lagoons and coral reefs on the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, on the coasts of Sumatra and on the west, north and east coasts of Java in depths of 2-15 meters. Like all Anemonenfische he lives in close symbiosis with large Seeanemonenarten. As host anemones he accepts the BTA ( Entacmaea quadricolor ), the Lederanemone ( Heteractis crispa ) and possibly also a Stichodactyla type.

Features

Grown Glühkohlen Anemonefish have an orange- red or bright red body and fins of the same color. In addition to occurring in the Coral Sea morph of the Black -finned anemonefish ( Amphiprion melanopus ) he is therefore the only Anemonenfischart without white stripes and so distinctive. Young Glühkohlen anemone fish still have a narrow white horizontal stripes just behind the eye, which disappears with age. Instead spreads from the region below the dorsal fin center a black spot from which covers almost the entire rear half of the trunk in adult animals. The fins are always red.

The dorsal fin has ten to eleven hard and 16 to 18 soft rays, the anal fin two hard and 13 to 14 soft rays. The pectoral fins are supported 18 to 20 fin rays. On the first branchial arch are 16 to 18 gill Reuse extensions. Amphiprion ephippium is 11 to 14 inches long. The length is 1.7 to two times the body height. The lateral line is accompanied 31-44 scales. The head scalation enough when Glühkohlen Anemonefish to the anterior edge of the eye, with the other red anemone fishes from the ephippium complex they only reaches the center of the eye.

The spawn of Glühkohlen anemone fish is red. It feeds on zooplankton.