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Updated 12/14/2023

Family Pomacentridae

WEST PACIFIC

Amphiprion chrysopterus



Palau, 10 feet

 



Savusavu Bay, Fiji, 10 feet

   
 

Palau

 
 

Vava'u, Tonga, 6 feet
 


Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 70 feet
   

ORANGEFIN ANEMONEFISH 

Common with anemones on outer reefs to 60 feet.  Adults yellowish-orange with dark brown center, juveniles brown or olive, with two bluish-white bars, the rear bar narrower than the front, caudal fin white except orange in Fiji and Tonga.  Amphiprion clarkii has two equally wide white bars.  Attains 5 inches.  Eastern Indonesia to French Polynesia.

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