Premnas biaculeatus, commonly known as
spine-cheeked anemonefish or the
maroon clownfish, is a species of
anemonefish that is found in the
Indo-Pacific from western
Indonesia to
Taiwan and the
Great Barrier Reef. They can grow up to be about . Like all anemonefishes it forms a
symbiotic mutualism with
sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a
sequential hermaphrodite with a strict sized based
dominance hierarchy: the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male non-breeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends. They exhibit
protandry, meaning the breeding male will change to female if the sole breeding female dies, with the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male. The fish's natural diet includes algae and zooplankton.