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title: "Blackback Anemonefish"
description: "Amphiprion melanopus — Ryby. Amphiprion melanopus, also known as the cinnamon clownfish, fire clownfish, red and black anemonefish, black-backed anemonefish or dusky anemonefish is a widely distributed anemonefish chiefly found in the western and southern parts of the Pacific Ocean.."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/blackback-anemonefish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blackback Anemonefish

> Amphiprion melanopus — Ryby. Amphiprion melanopus, also known as the cinnamon clownfish, fire clownfish, red and black anemonefish, black-backed anemonefish or dusky anemonefish is a widely distributed anemonefish chiefly found in the western and southern parts of the Pacific Ocean..

- Scientific name: *Amphiprion melanopus*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 2181
- Wikidata: [Q253437](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253437)
- iNaturalist taxon: [57741](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/57741)

## Names

- en: Blackback Anemonefish
- de: Schwarzflossen-Anemonenfisch
- es: Pez payaso canela
- fr: Poisson-clown bistré
- nl: Eenbandanemoonvis

## Countries with the most observations

NC (466), ID (355), AU (178), VU (164), GU (97), MH (52), SB (39), PG (35), TL (32), PW (28), MP (26), FM (9)

## Summary

Amphiprion melanopus, also known as the cinnamon clownfish, fire clownfish, red and black anemonefish, black-backed anemonefish or dusky anemonefish is a widely distributed anemonefish chiefly found in the western and southern parts of the Pacific Ocean.. The species scientific name 'melanopus' is Greek, meaning black feet in reference to the black pelvic fins. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone.  It is a sequential hermaphrodite  with a strict sized based dominance hierarchy: the female is largest, the breeding male…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_clownfish

## Photo

![Blackback Anemonefish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blackback-anemonefish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141135630

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blackback-anemonefish?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).