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a tiny fish that switches sex, slaps anemones, and bullied Nemo into a franchise
means A small, brightly striped orange-and-white reef fish that lives unharmed among the stinging tentacles of sea anemones in a mutual partnership.
from A transparent English compound of 'clown' and 'fish,' coined for the creature's circus-bright orange-and-white coloring — like a clown's painted face and costume. 'Clown' itself entered English in the 1500s, possibly from a Scandinavian or Low German root meaning a clod or rustic boor, before it came to mean a comic performer. The fish is also called the anemonefish, after the home it bullies its way into.
- sex swap
- all born male, dominant one becomes female
- sting immune
- mucus coat dodges anemone venom
- strict hierarchy
- the biggest female rules the colony
- poor swimmers
- they rarely stray from their anemone home
- backup queen
- largest male takes over when she dies
nemo — fictional clownfish from pixar's 2003 film that made the species globally famous
amphiprion ocellaris — the actual species of clownfish found in great barrier reef and southeast asian coral reefs