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https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=yellowtail+clownfish&safe=activep

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/speciessummary.php?id=5448

http://www.youpet.com/yellowtail-clownfish/

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http://www.fish-species.org.uk/clown-fish/05-yellowtail-clownfish.htm

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Amphiprion 
clarkii
Yellowtail Clownfish

A Clownfish is a very important fish when it comes to anemones. They are like bees and flowers. The clown fish is the Host of the anemone and they feed them and keep the anemone protected and in return the the anemone doesn't sting the clownfish. Clownfish feed on small invertebrates that could harm the sea anemone, and the fecal matter from the clownfish fertilizes the sea anemone.

Adaptions

The Clarkii has many different colorations which doesn't help for defense. Although their home,  mostly the red rose anemone, gives them the protection they need to stay alive. Anemones have stingers that the clownfish feed off of so they are use to it. Predators are usually large fish, such as-- sharks and other big creatures of the deep.

Location

The Clarkii lives mostly around northern Australia. Around the Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf to Western Australia, throughout the Indo-Australian Archipelago and in the western Pacific at the islands of Melanesia and Micronesia, north to Taiwan, southern Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. Yellowtail clownfish have eggs called elliptical eggs and they lay up to or either over 100. They lay them on reef slopes and lagoons.

Anatomy

Female clownfish are usually larger than the male. And whats unique about their species is that when the dominate female dies the male then becomes the new dominate female. The yellowtail clownfish, just like other types of clownfish, anemones can still do damage to them. They are just not as harmful to them.

Conservation status

There are 27 species of clownfish. They use their anemone for protection because a brightly colored fish with poor swimming abilities aren't very helpful when it comes to defending your self against predators. In fact the only clownfish that can avoid the stings of an anemone is called the Damselfish. They are Endangered due to pollution and habitat distruction.