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Clownfish are brightly colored fish that live symbiotically with sea anemones, benefiting from their stinging tentacles for protection against predators. They typically inhabit warm saltwater coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and are known for their distinctive colors and stripes. Clownfish feed on scraps from sea anemones, while their presence helps attract prey for the anemones.

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Clownfish Fact File ks1

Clownfish are brightly colored fish that live symbiotically with sea anemones, benefiting from their stinging tentacles for protection against predators. They typically inhabit warm saltwater coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and are known for their distinctive colors and stripes. Clownfish feed on scraps from sea anemones, while their presence helps attract prey for the anemones.

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Why do they live

Clownfish with sea anemones?


Clownfish are a type of Clownfish and sea anemones
brightly coloured fish that help each other to survive.
live with sea anemones. Sea anemones have stinging
tentacles which help them to
What do they look like? catch their prey. Clownfish
• Clownfish can be found in are not affected by these.
different colours.
• They can be orange, yellow,
Where do they live?
red or black. • Clownfish like to live in Sea anemones protect the
• The most common species of warm saltwater. clownfish from predators
clownfish have three white stripes. and provide them with food
• Many clownfish live in
scraps. The bright-coloured
• They are usually the coral reefs of the
clownfish attract other fish
between 7cm Pacific and Indian Oceans.
for the sea anemone to eat.
and 17cm • They are often found living
long. within sea anemones. Glossary
sea anemones:
What • small invertebrates A group of
Did you clownfish are Invertebrates that live in the
do they • algae
know...? called a sea. They have tentacles and
eat? • scraps of food left over
from the sea anemone school. look like flowers.

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