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Georgina Jones, license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Ovalentaria
Family:
Pomacentridae
Subfamily:
Pomacentrinae
Genus:
Amphiprion
Species:
akallopisos
Common:
Skunk clownfish
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
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Regions:
Indian Ocean, Eastern
Indian Ocean, Western
Pacific, Western Central
Colleye, O., Parmentier, E. 2012. Overview on the Diversity of Sounds Produced by Clownfishes (Pomacentridae): Importance of Acoustic Signals in Their Peculiar Way of Life. PLoS ONE, 7(11).
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
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Colleye, O., Vandewalle, P., Lanterbecq, D., Lecchini, D., Parmentier, E. 2011. Interspecific Variation of Calls in Clownfishes: Degree of Similarity in Closely Related Species. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(365).
Parmentier, E., Lagardère, J. P., Vandewalle, P., Fine, M. L. 2005. Geographical Variation in Sound Production in the Anemonefish Amphiprion akallopisos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1573): 1697-1703.
Lagardère, J. P., Fonteneau, G., Mariani, A., Morinière, P. 2003. Les Émissions Sonores du Poisson-Clown Mouffette Amphiprion akallopisos, Bleeker 1853 (Pomacentridae), Enregistrées dans l'Aquarium de la Rochelle. Annales de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de la Charente-Maritime, 9(3): 281-288.
Colleye, O., Frederich, B., Vandewalle, P., Casadevall, M., Parmentier, E. 2009. Agonistic Sounds in the Skunk Clownfish Amphiprion akallopisos: Size-Related Variation in Acoustic Features. Journal of Fish Biology, 75(4): 908-916.