The symbiosis between clownfish and sea anemones is one of the best-known ... actively shares food with its host, the bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor), which in turn promotes the growth ...

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee ... which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s tentacles, getting ...

As North Carolina State fish biologist Patrick Cooney wrote on his blog The Fisheries: Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten ...

Combing through coffee table books on sea life, his eye landed on ... but a layer of mucus—possibly developed by the clownfish after it first touches an anemone's tentacles—may afford protection.

Anemonefish, sometimes called clownfish, have been popular attractions ... For anemonefish, which cannot leave their sea anemone, feeding their hosts is extremely important and will ultimately ...

Relatives of the sea anemone include coral and jellyfish. Like jellyfish, the sea anemone has stinging cells on its tentacles. This is how the sea anemone catches its prey and defends itself from ...

Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten by a barracuda. Nemo hatches as an undifferentiated hermaphrodite (as all clownfish ...

They will be judged on their quality, style and originality. While diving, Sam stopped to watch a group of clownfish dart around a magnificent sea anemone – an animal related to jellyfish. Sam was ...