Greetings again my dear friends of this prestigious platform, in this opportunity we will continue knowing some of the living species of the wonderful aquatic world, and therefore, we will relate in a general way with the beautiful and recognized clown fish, in order to continue highlighting the essential balance that must exist between all living beings present on this planet Earth.

Through the previous presentations we have been able to realize that our actions in some way or another unbalance the normal functioning of the existence of living species in our environment, but, nevertheless, thanks to the enormous scientific-technological contributions, we as a human species have tried to reestablish as much as possible such a valuable balance.

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Various technological applications extend to any space-time of this planet, and the aquatic world, of course, has not escaped this influence, the interest in knowing the marine depths are increasing, and for this, technology is constantly developing which allows our intellectual capacity to work in favor of both these marine species, and consequently, for ourselves, so everything we know so far of marine species we owe to these wonderful technological applications as observed in the image above.

This beautiful marine species belonging to the family Pomacentridae, and of which we can say that its most characteristic colors are white, orange and black, however, according to its species we could find it with yellow, pink, red tones, but, the most recognized species of these fish has white, orange and black colors, its length varies between 10 to 18 cm, and as a curious fact, the males are smaller than the females.

The clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) to name one of the most recognized species, is also known by the name of anemone fish, and anemones are a type of marine species that have tentacles and vegetable appearance, also have stinging cells which contain a poison that is inoculated in their prey when they make contact with them, in relation to the clownfish has a mucosa on its skin and this allows the fish to be immune to the bite of the deadly sting of the already described anemone.

When we refer to the clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) any of us could easily identify it since this fish served as inspiration for the famous animated film "Finding Nemo", an aspect that in turn attributed great danger to its existence in its natural habitat since they are very required to form part of many fish tanks in different parts of the world, this action linked to global warming have raised concerns about the existence of clownfish, at least in their natural environment.

This type of fish establish their habitat in shallow reefs and as we said, they have a good symbiotic relationship with the anemones that are found in these reefs, and in this way, with the anemones around them they are able to take refuge against their predators, and as for their diet, we can say that they feed on both plants and algae and also certain mollusks and crustaceans, and by being in the company of anemones they can also feed on the remains of their meals.

Until now, their best known natural predators are sharks, eels, and other larger fish, however, in recent years their greatest danger has been represented by man through their capture because this type of fish, as has been expressed, are in great demand to form part of aquariums in private homes, and thus, the marketing of this type of fish has been very profitable, but achieving a profound imbalance in the natural habitat of these fish.

These types of fish are hermaphrodites, and in general, this family nucleus consists of the mother, father and their offspring, therefore, when the female for some reason disappears from this family nucleus, the male manages to alter its hormone levels and thus become female and in this way balance and maintain the amount of population of this marine species.

Wonderful are the species that are found in the depths of our waters, and many of them we still do not know in their entirety, but, have been giant steps achieved in terms of knowing these marine species, and all this undoubtedly thanks to the extraordinary link between science-technology.

Until another opportunity my dear readers, hoping to count on your important comments to consolidate the issue raised.

Note: The gif at the beginning of this article is my own, and the images were created in Power Point and the animated gif in PhotoScape.

Bibliographic references consulted and recommended

[1]The clown fish

[2]Descubren la maquinaria genética que utiliza el pez payaso al cambiar de sexo