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Breeder ID: AMPOCE-061092-MUSGAR-001 Date received: 6/10/92

Identification: Amphiprion ocellaris (Cuvier, 1830)

Geographic origin: Indo-Pacific

Taxonomy: (after I.C.Z.N.)

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Subphylum Vertebrata

Class Osteichthyes

Order Perciformes Superorder Teleostei

Family Pomacentridae

Genus Amphiprion

Species ocellaris (Cuvier, 1830)

Duration male(yr): 1.6 Size male (mm):51 Duration female (yr): 12 Size female (mm): 76

Broodstock notes: Female is tank raised. Male is wild.

Physical differences: Female is larger

Adult diet: Artemia, krill, flake food, Formula One® frozen food.

Pre-spawning activity: Not indicated

Time spawning began: early PM Area spawning occurred: Inside clay tiles.

Frequency of spawning: not indicated Egg Description: not indicated

Approximate quantity: not indicated Size: not indicated

Egg changes / development: not indicated

Transfer / removal method: not indicated

Spawning tank size (liter): 200 Sides of tank covered? Yes

Lighting & photo period: 2 20 watt fluorescent Ultralumes®, ( 12 hours)

Filtration: Wet / dry , Skimmer

Additives and dosages: none

Water temperature: 78 F Specific gravity: 1.022 pH: 8.3 Nitrate: none detected

Fry development / changes: Silver color at hatching; gold tone at day 6; orange tint and adult swimming patterns at day 7; day 8 staying at bottom; day 9 white band starting on head; day 10 middle band starting; day 12 aggressive behavior begins; day 20 ~6 mm.

First Food Offered: rotifers

Second Food Offered: newly hatched Artemia

Development description: Eating flake food at day 25.

Rearing tank size (liter): not indicated Sides covered?: Yes, black

Lighting & photo period: same as spawning tank

Filtration: same as spawning tank

Additives & doses: none

Water temperature: 78 F Specific gravity: 1.022 pH: 8.3 Nitrate: none detected

Comments: Amphiprion ocellaris was also described by Cuvier, 1830 as Amphiprion melanurus, which was validated by Allen in 1991 as a synonym of A. ocellaris. In 1873 Castenlau described Amphiprion bicolor, which was also listed as a synonym of A. ocellaris by Allen in 1991.

Original description: Cuvier first described Amphiprion ocellaris in 1830 in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:399 in the Hist. Nat. Poiss. V.5 reference 999, from a specimen collected in Sumatra, Indonesia. Validated by Ida in Masuda et al., 1984 and Allen in 1991 as a synonym of A. ocellaris.

Word origin: Amphiprion is from the Greek roots amph, -I, -o, meaning Around, on both sides; double, and -prion which means a saw. The genus ocellaris is confusing; the Latin root o, meaning an egg; cell, -a, -I, meaning a cell; or perhaps ocell, =us, meaning little eye and-rismeaning laughter (little laughing eye?). The synonym melanurus is composed of the Greek roots melan, -o, meaning black; and ur, =a, -o, meaning tail (thus black tail). The synonymn bicolormeans two colors (bi = two).