Primarily black on both sides, with red snout, belly and fins, and white or pale blue head bar. Males tend to be a lot smaller and more orange but otherwise similar. It resembles Amphiprion melanopus very much, and is to be distinguished primarily by location and its host anemone.

Unevaluated by the IUCN Red list, but fairly common in Asia.

South China sea, Malaysian peninsula, the Philippines, Borneo and West Indonesia, North to SouthWest Japan. It lives on bubble-tip anemones (Entacmaea quadricolor) on reefs down to 12 meters.

Anemonefishes are protandrous hermaphrodites, meaning they start as male and can change to female. In social groups of anemonefish there is only 1 female and 1 or more males. The female is always largest and dominant, and she chooses just 1 male to mate with. Any offspring they have is undifferentiated until the time they turn into males. If the female dies, the male that is highest in hierarchy will turn into a female, choose a new mate, thus creating a new mating couple. All remaining males will go up one rank in the hierarchy. They lay eggs which are protected by the males.