Pink anemonefish
Amazing fact
The pink anemonefish lowers the pressure inside its mouth to suck in food.
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The pink anemonefish lowers the pressure inside its mouth to suck in food.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Pink anemonefish
- Scientific name
- Amphiprion perideraion
- Japanese name
- ハナビラクマノミ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Amphiprion
It lives from Kushimoto in Wakayama and the Ryukyu Islands to the eastern Indian Ocean and the seas around western Pacific islands.
How the Pink anemonefish lives
It is active during the day. It gathers food near its host anemone. It sometimes eats food left over by its host anemone. It lives in a small group led by a female and a male, with other males that do not breed.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Range
- Eastern Indian Ocean to western Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Pink anemonefish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ハナビラクマノミ
- 简体中文
- 颈环双锯鱼
- 繁體中文
- 粉紅雙鋸魚
- Español
- Pez payaso rosado
- Français
- Poisson clown à collier
- Deutsch
- Halsband-Anemonenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-palhaço-rosado
- Italiano
- Pesce pagliaccio rosa
- العربية
- سمكة المهرج الظربان الوردي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Pelet bergaris
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá hề hồng
- Русский
- Розовый амфиприон
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ハナビラクマノミChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Amphiprion perideraionChecked: 2026-11-06
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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