The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish ... alliance with clownfish, which are ...

Read about different predator-prey relationships on the reef ... clownfish guards to pick off a delicious meal. Packed with miniature toxin-loaded harpoons (nematocysts), the tentacles of sea ...

Combing through coffee table books on sea ... a clownfish of the species Amphiprion percula—introduced millions of children around the world to a wondrous tropical ecosystem: the coral reef ...

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 ...

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

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...

In the crevices of the corals, search for reef fish, butterflyfish, pufferfish, anemones and their resident clownfish ... sea life – though others found this a bit unnatural. To reach the Coral ...

In the coastal seas episode, we see the devastating scenes of coral bleaching – how whole reef ecosystems which once teamed with ... that typically live in large colonies. Similar to a sea anemone, a ...

Read about different competitive relationships on the reef ... tiny algae gardens, clownfish take up residence among the tentacles of one of two species of sea anemones. They aggressively defend ...