Definitions

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  • noun clownfish

Etymologies

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Due to the species' symbiotic relations to sea anemones

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Examples

  • Click these links to see how the clown anemonefish provides constant care, how the giant bullfrog tenderly and strategically saves his babies 'lives, how the gorilla serves as a bodyguard for youngsters, and how the weedy seadragon carries his eggs before they hatch.

    Avital Binshtock: Worth Watching: "Life" on DVD 2010

  • Click these links to see how the clown anemonefish provides constant care, how the giant bullfrog tenderly and strategically saves his babies 'lives, how the gorilla serves as a bodyguard for youngsters, and how the weedy seadragon carries his eggs before they hatch.

    Avital Binshtock: Worth Watching: "Life" on DVD 2010

  • Underwater visual surveys in the Philippines have revealed densities of both anemonefish and anemones significantly lower in exploited areas.

    Practical Fishkeeping 2010

  • Clownfish, also called clown anemonefish, are suffering from habitat loss as global warming causes coral reefs to decline, the IUCN report says.

    National Geographic News 2010

  • Underwater visual surveys in the Philippines have revealed densities of both anemonefish and anemones significantly lower in exploited areas.

    Practical Fishkeeping 2010

  • There was tremendous colored coral everywhere all the way to the top of the pinnacle (which was deep enough to avoid bleaching) that was covered in coral, anemones, anemonefish, large groups of HUGE groupers and all sorts of other life.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • But apparently the spinecheek anemonefish doesn't belong to the subfamily of anemonefishes (Amphiprioninae) but to another genus of damselfishes: Premnas

    Planet Atheism 2009

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