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Title: Spawning Clownfish. Indonesia
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A pair of clownfish (western clown anemonefish: false clown anemonefish: Amphiprion ocellaris) spawning orange eggs on the rock beneath their magnificent sea anemone (Heteractis magnifica) home on a coral reef. This photo shows the larger female in the act of laying eggs, while the male waits to fertilise them. Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lembeh Strait, Molucca Sea.
- Anthozoans: Anthozoa
- behaviour
- Bitung
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- clownfish: western clown anemonefish: false clown anemonefish: A
- Cnidarians: Cnidaria
- coral reef
- Damselfishes: Pomacentridae
- eggs
- Fishes
- Indonesia
- Invertebrates
- Lembeh Strait
- magnificent sea anemone: Heteractis magnifica
- Marine Life
- mating
- Molucca Sea
- muck diving
- North Sulawesi
- reprodcution
- Sea Anemones: Actininaria
- South East Asia
- spawning
- tropical
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