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title: "Pink Skunk Anemonefish"
description: "Amphiprion perideraion — Peixes. The pink skunk clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion), also known as the pink anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is widespread from northern Australia through the Malay Archipelago and Melanesia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/pink-skunk-anemonefish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Pink Skunk Anemonefish

> Amphiprion perideraion — Peixes. The pink skunk clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion), also known as the pink anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is widespread from northern Australia through the Malay Archipelago and Melanesia.

- Scientific name: *Amphiprion perideraion*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 3005
- Wikidata: [Q538967](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q538967)
- iNaturalist taxon: [134156](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/134156)

## Names

- en: Pink Skunk Anemonefish
- de: Halsband-Anemonenfisch
- es: Pez payaso rosado
- fr: Poisson clown à collier
- pl: Amfiprion złoty

## Countries with the most observations

ID (730), PH (372), FJ (243), TH (171), MH (144), AU (96), MY (86), PW (76), PG (65), NC (59), SB (54), VU (53)

## Summary

The pink skunk clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion), also known as the pink anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is widespread from northern Australia through the Malay Archipelago and Melanesia. Like all anemonefishes, it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host.  It is a sequential hermaphrodite  with a strict size-based dominance hierarchy; the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male nonbreeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends. They exhibit protandry, meaning the breeding male changes to female if…

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

## Photo

![Pink Skunk Anemonefish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pink-skunk-anemonefish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142594473

## Machine access

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