True percula clownfish. Two percula clownfish. These popular fish like to live in male/female pairs – though can be very territorial towards their own kind and gender.

A new study suggests that another species of clownfish (Amphiprion percula) may be shrinking to survive ocean heat waves. Photograph By Shane Gross. By Melissa Hobson. May 21, 2025.

Clownfish are “pretty easy to catch,” Rueger said. “The whole procedure maybe takes 20 to 30 seconds, if you’re good at it, for each fish. They usually don’t know what happened to them.” ...

I’m sure for many people, clownfish are synonymous with Finding Nemo; however, there are in fact, two types of clownfish – the false clownfish and the true clownfish. Nemo and Marvin are true ...

According to the researchers, the results reveal that clownfish reduce their size in response to heat stress, which, in turn, increases their chances of surviving a heatwave by 78 percent.

Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in order to boost their chances of surviving marine heat waves, according to a ...

Orange clownfish, or Amphiprion percula, are shown in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. How quickly this fish develops its stripes depends on the sea anemone species it chooses to live in, a study has ...

Shrinking Nemo: Clownfish survive heatwaves by shrinking Date: May 21, 2025 Source: Newcastle University Summary: Clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid ...

To investigate, she and her colleagues raised orange clownfish (Amphiprion percula) and bubble-tip anemones (Entacmaea quadricolor) in the lab.Some of the fish and anemones were paired together ...

Wanting to know how clownfish cope with changes to their environment, we repeatedly measured 134 wild fish in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, during a marine heatwave that started in March 2023 and ...

Of the 134 clownfish studied, 100 got shorter, the team found, and this shrinking increased their chances of surviving the heat stress by up to 78%. ... A. percula in Kimbe Bay.