Clownfish · Anemone-dwelling damselfish whose 2003 film fame became a capture-and-reef case study.
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Pixar Nemo is styled on Amphiprion ocellaris (this atlas type). Shops still mix ocellaris and percula under one common name.
A group is a female, a breeding male and non-breeders. If the female dies, the male changes sex. The film missing-mother plot skipped that rule.
Several trade analyses reported a demand spike after 2003. Captive-bred ocellaris later absorbed much of the legal market in the US and EU.
The fish mucus lacks the cues that trigger nematocysts, and acclimation behaviour matters. It is not a cartoon handshake.
Fish may linger on a dying anemone and then vanish from that site. Reef heatwaves are a housing crisis for the genus.
Males tend the nest of demersal eggs. The biology is paternal care, not a transoceanic search.
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Ritiks · CC BY-SA 3.0
Atlas type and Nemo model.
Ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris, Indo-Pacific) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Film that rewrote aquarium demand.
Finding Nemo (2003, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Monographs that organised Amphiprion for the field.
Gerald R. Allen (anemonefish keys, United States / Australia) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
NASA/Kjell Lindgren · Public domain
Bleaching years that include anemones.
Great Barrier Reef (host habitat, Australia) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Obsidian Soul , map derived from File:WorldMap-B with Frame.png (created from DEMIS Mapserver ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild-take centre for reef aquarium fishes.
Coral Triangle trade (capture hub, Indonesia / Philippines) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Giacomo Merculiano · Public domain
The house without which the fish is not a clownfish.
Sea anemone hosts (Heteractis / Entacmaea, Indo-Pacific) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Sequel that restated the no-release message.
Finding Dory (2016, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Tank-raised ocellaris that cut some wild SKUs.
Captive-bred farms (2000s-, Global) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
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Everyone agrees the film moved demand. Papers still argue how much was wild versus already-farmed.
Tank-raised ocellaris can be a clean SKU. The same shop may still sell cyanide-caught tangs.
Apex lamnid whose warm muscle, broad diet and 1975 cinema still outrun the tagging papers.
Overall 66 🐟Anadromous fishes that move ocean fat onto spawning gravels -- and into forests, treaties and hydropower fights.
Overall 63 🐟A warm-bodied tuna whose Tokyo auction prices and ICCAT quotas made a single fish into a geopolitical unit.
Overall 54 🐴Male-pregnancy fish — Hippocampus since Linnaeus (1758), dried trade, and CITES Appendix II (2002).
Overall 28 🎏Domesticated carp whose Niigata colour mutations became a global pond aesthetic -- not a wild goldfish substitute.
Overall 42 🐡Beak-toothed inflators whose tetrodotoxin made a Japanese cuisine and a genome project out of one family.
Overall 41 ⚡Amazon knifefishes whose stacked electrocytes taught Humboldt, Volta arguments and a 2019 species split.
Overall 36