Editing Clark's anemonefish (section)

==Characteristics of anemonefish== 
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Clownfish or anemonefish are  [[fish]]es<!--Please note that "fishes" is correct here. See wiki article Fish, subsection "Fish or fishes" -->  that, in the wild, form [[symbiosis|symbiotic]] [[Mutualism (biology)|mutualism]]s with [[sea anemone]]s and are unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone, see {{slink|Amphiprioninae|Mutualism}}.  The sea anemone protects the clownfish from predators, as well as providing food through the scraps left from the anemone's meals and occasional dead anemone tentacles. In return, the clownfish defends the anemone from its predators, and parasites.<ref name="natgeowild">{{cite web|url=http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/clown-anemonefish/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113151105/http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/clown-anemonefish|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 13, 2010|title=Clown Anemonefish|publisher=National Geographic Society|work= Nat Geo Wild : Animals|accessdate=2011-12-19}}</ref> Anemonefish tend to have a life span of about 10-11 years when accounting for a predictable environment that does not experience much change in water temperature, increase in predation or habitat degradation (Lakshmi Sawitri). Clownfish are small-sized, {{convert|10|-|18|cm}}, and depending on species, they are overall yellow, orange, or a reddish or blackish color, and many show white bars or patches. Within species there may be color variations, most commonly according to distribution, but also based on sex, age and host anemone.  Clownfish are found in warmer waters of the [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] and [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] oceans and the [[Red Sea]] in sheltered [[reef]]s or in shallow [[lagoon]]s.

In a group of clownfish, there is a strict [[dominance hierarchy]]. The largest and most aggressive fish is female and is found at the top. Only two clownfish, a male and a female, in a group reproduce through [[external fertilization]]. Clownfish are [[Sequential hermaphroditism|sequential hermaphrodites]], meaning that they develop into males first, and when they mature, they become females. They are not aggressive. When the egg production and spawning patterns of eight breeding pairs were observed in a coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, they preferred breeding in the colder months. A trend of a peak breeding season from November through May was seen; egg production increased up to the new moon and decreased after the full moon. This seasonality of spawning is comparable to other species of clownfish that live in temperate regions.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Holtswarth, J. N.|author2= San Jose, S. B.|author3= Montes Jr, H. R.|author4= Morley, J. W. |author5= Pinsky, M. L. |year=2017|title=The reproductive seasonality and fecundity of yellowtail clownfish (''Amphiprion clarkii'') in the Philippines |journal=Bulletin of Marine Science|volume=93|issue=4|pages=997–1007|doi=10.5343/bms.2017.1010}}</ref>