With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes ... they need only get past clownfish guards to pick off a delicious ...

Nemo—a clownfish of the species Amphiprion percula—introduced millions of children around the world to a wondrous tropical ecosystem: the coral ... clownfish live among the reefs from East ...

A close relative of coral and jellyfish ... alliance with clownfish, which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone ...

While they might appear to be nothing more than rocky substrate, each coral is in fact ... species of clownfish has made a home in an anemone away from the reef. But it is up to the big male ...

The variety of life found on coral reefs attracts some of the ocean’s deadliest ... between two species where one benefits and the other is left unharmed. Clownfish live in symbiosis with sea anemones ...