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Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Ovalentaria
Family:
Pomacentridae
Subfamily:
Pomacentrinae
Genus:
Amphiprion
Species:
akallopisos
Common:
Skunk clownfish
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
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Regions:
Indian Ocean, Eastern
Indian Ocean, Western
Pacific, Western Central
Lagardère, J. P., Fonteneau, G., Mariani, A., Morinière, P. 2003. Les Émissions Sonores du Poisson-Clown Mouffette Amphiprion akallopisos, Bleeker 1853 (Pomacentridae), Enregistrées dans l'Aquarium de la Rochelle. Annales de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de la Charente-Maritime, 9(3): 281-288.
Lagardère et al. (2003)
Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Parmentier, E., Lagardère, J. P., Vandewalle, P., Fine, M. L. 2005. Geographical Variation in Sound Production in the Anemonefish Amphiprion akallopisos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1573): 1697-1703.
Parmentier et al. (2005)
Colleye, O., Frederich, B., Vandewalle, P., Casadevall, M., Parmentier, E. 2009. Agonistic Sounds in the Skunk Clownfish Amphiprion akallopisos: Size-Related Variation in Acoustic Features. Journal of Fish Biology, 75(4): 908-916.
Colleye et al. (2009)
Colleye, O., Vandewalle, P., Lanterbecq, D., Lecchini, D., Parmentier, E. 2011. Interspecific Variation of Calls in Clownfishes: Degree of Similarity in Closely Related Species. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(365).
Colleye et al. (2011)
Colleye, O., Parmentier, E. 2012. Overview on the Diversity of Sounds Produced by Clownfishes (Pomacentridae): Importance of Acoustic Signals in Their Peculiar Way of Life. PLoS ONE, 7(11).
Colleye and Parmentier (2012)