Nemo clown fish is at risk of extinction

Clownfish, the main character in the cult animated movie Finding Nemo is in danger of extinction completely due to seawater warming, causing anemones and their habitats to be in danger.

Anemone is a living organism closely related to coral reefs, it is symbiotic with the clown because this fish helps anemones eat other animals to harm it, whereas the fish have no habitat. safe for large fish because anemones are poisonous.

Clownfish live in symbiosis with anemones.

However, the climate is changing drastically and the major coral reefs are being bleached, along with the symbiotic ecosystem of anemones and clownfish that are also depleted.

A scientific team has been monitoring the clownfish community at Moorea Island in the South Pacific since 2016 and has just released a shocking research report in Nature Communications.

"The clownfish living in bleached anemone area have a sharp decrease in the number of eggs they produce, up to 73%. The clownfish also have less spawn , " according to CNRS's Research Institute of Fisheries. France.

When compared to the clownfish community living in an environment that is still preserved, the clownfish that live in areas with bleached anemones will increase hormone stress levels, resulting in reduced fertility.

The researchers say they will study for a while to test the adaptation of clownfish to life and whether the fish are at risk of extinction.