Distribution Of Clownfishes

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Altogether 28 species of clownfishes were reported from the different geographical locations of the world (Allen, 1975). The majority of clownfishes live in tropical seas (Michael, 2008). The natural tropical realm of the clownfishes stretches across some 12 time zones, a vast expanse touching three continents, numerous seas and countless islands from Polynesia to the east coast of Africa. Distribution of clownfishes from the Gulf of Aqaba in the northern Red Sea, south to Duban, South Africa, and eastward more than 12.000 miles to reach southern Japan ant the Tuamotu Archipelago in southeast Polynesia (Wilkerson, 2001).
Premnas biaculeatus was found on fringing coastal reefs, lagoon patch reefs, and outer reefs faces. It occurs at depths of

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