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A group is a female, a breeding male and non-breeders. If the female dies, the male changes sex. The film missing-mother plot skipped that rule. Did Finding Nemo increase wild take? Several trade analyses reported a demand spike after 2003. Captive-bred ocellaris later absorbed much of the legal market in the US and EU.

Why do anemones not sting their fish? The fish mucus lacks the cues that trigger nematocysts, and acclimation behaviour matters. It is not a cartoon handshake. Fish may linger on a dying anemone and then vanish from that site. Reef heatwaves are a housing crisis for the genus. Are clownfish good parents in the film sense?

Males tend the nest of demersal eggs. The biology is paternal care, not a transoceanic search. Where is the wild centre of the type? Eastern Indian and western Pacific reefs -- Andaman to the Philippines and Australia north -- not a Sydney Harbour suburban anemone. Is aquaculture the conservation ending?