Amazing!

[tahneen]

ok so I was watching The Blue Realme and they were doing a segment on venimous creatures and they eventually got to anemones and clownfish, well they said that the clownfish is always born a male and live in little colonies and when the female dies the next dominate fish changes sexes and becomes a female

 

[BigC]

Thats correct.

 

[ox5477]

Yes, it is pretty cool. I saw something about Wrasses too and not sure if it's all species of wrasses, but the shoal is all female except for one huge and dominant male. If the male dies, the largest female will change sex within a few days to a week and become the dominant male. It's pretty cool sometimes how interesting and resourceful nature is

 

[SkiFletch]

Cirhilabrus, Macropharyngodon, and Parachilenous (spelling?) genus wrasses are like this for sure. Its actually a common theme in marine fish.

 

[andywg]

It is indeed true that anemonefish are protandrous hermaphrodites (and probably one of the better known examples of it)