Amphiprion clarkii Anemonefish Unusual Eggs

This is a female Clark's anemonefish (Amphiprion clarkii) attending to her eggs. These fish normally have sequential broods. One set of eggs is spawned, fertilized and hatched, followed by the next. The fish pictured here appears to be attending simultaneously to two sets of eggs at different stages of development—one beneath her being near hatching, the eggs above being less mature. This might indicate that a mature female died mid-way through development of the first batch of eggs, with one of the attendant males maturing into a female and depositing her own eggs prior to maturity of the first eggs. Photographed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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This is a female Clark's anemonefish (Amphiprion clarkii) attending to her eggs. These fish normally have sequential broods. One set of eggs is spawned, fertilized and hatched, followed by the next. The fish pictured here appears to be attending simultaneously to two sets of eggs at different stages of development—one beneath her being near hatching, the eggs above being less mature. This might indicate that a mature female died mid-way through development of the first batch of eggs, with one of the attendant males maturing into a female and depositing her own eggs prior to maturity of the first eggs. Photographed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.