The clownfish featured in 'Finding Nemo' are Percula clownfish or 'Amphiprion percula'. There are 30 different species of clownfish, we keep three different kinds including the percula. Percula clownfish are found in the Western pacific - Queensland and Melanesia.
Finding Nemo's Crush and Squirt are green sea turtles. These herbivore hard-shelled sea turtles migrate across long distances to feed and nest their eggs.
What are the fish that make shapes in Finding Nemo?
Role in the film
After a conversation between Marlin and Dory, the Moonfish unexpectedly appear. In an effort to entertain Dory, they begin doing various "impressions," which consist of them moving into different positions to form various shapes including a swordfish, a lobster, and a sailing ship.
Dory, the small blue fish with a bad memory from the "Finding Nemo" franchise, is a blue tang, or a Paracanthurus hepatus in scientific terms. Native to the Indo-Pacific and found in coral reefs, these fish weigh around one pound and are generally 10 to 12 inches long, according to National Geographic.
'Tad', the longnose butterflyfish (Forcipiger flavissimus) has a pretty small part in 'Finding Nemo'. But these fish are stunning and interesting, and since we keep them in the aquarium at World Museum, it would be a shame not to mention them due to Tad being a bit-part.
In the film 'Finding Nemo', the character 'Gill' is a Moorish Idol. He has some pretty bad scarring, which he got from landing on dentist tools when he tried to escape one time.
He is an eagle ray who believes in the practical, taking his little fishy pupils for a ride on his back to teach them about the other creatures of the seabed and singing a whole bunch of memory-aiding ditties along the way.
John Dory, or St Peter Fish, may be rather strange looking, but it's highly valued for its mild, slightly sweet flavour, pearly-white flesh and firm, succulent texture. It's a heavy-boned fish, and a little more expensive because of its low yield, but well every penny.
Gill is a thin-bodied fish who is more than twice the size of Nemo. He is striped blue-black and white with yellow smudges and he has a white snout with a small yellow patch on the top.
Also known as the Blue Hippo Tang, the Royal Blue Tang, the Regal Tang and the Palette Surgeonfish, the Blue Tang is a very popular fish in the aquarium industry, rising to fame after the release of the films Finding Nemo and its sequel Finding Dory.
Dory is a regal (or royal) blue tang, or in binomial language, Paracanthurus hepatus. The other species Acanthurus coeruleus, is known as the Atlantic blue tang.
The blue tang has a royal blue body, yellow tail, and black “palette” design. It's an oval-shaped fish with a hard beak-like mouth that scrapes algae from rocks. Its tail has sharp spines on each side, and when disturbed, these spines unfold from a groove and can inflict serious wounds.
And that whole variety is astounding to me, and just, just beautiful. Narrator: Digital artists painted more than 150 different fish for Finding Nemo. All based on real fish shapes and colors. Coral reef fish were bright and colorful, open ocean fish, silver or metallic, and harbor fish, dull grays and greens.
Nigel is a supporting character in Disney/Pixar's 2003 animated film, Finding Nemo. He is a brown pelican who loves to spend hours in the dentist office window, diagnosing dental problems with his fish friends in the tank.
Role in the film. The Anglerfish entices Marlin and Dory in a dark chasm with her glowing dorsal fin before chasing them, as the two fish try to search for P. Sherman's diving mask. Eventually, she gets caught in the mask around a rock, immobilizing her, but not before attempting one last bite at Marlin and Dory.
Finding Nemo - Chuckles was a goldfish that was only seen in a picture of Darla. He was a pet for Darla, but he sadly died because Darla wouldn't stop shaking the bag he was in.
There are 30 recognized species of clownfish. Marlin and Nemo are Ocellaris clownfish, a type of orange clownfish that live in sea anemones, just like in the movie. This type of clownfish is typically 3 to 4 inches long with bright orange coloring and white stripes outlined in black.
Blenny is a small light-green fish. Though he swims in the ocean just like any typical fish, he is shown to be nervous when it comes to predators (such as the case of Chum who started sticking out various skeleton fish out of his mouth), causing him to swim away in fear.
Nemo and his father are clownfish, a type of deep sea fish that live in certain types of anemones. While clownfish are “technically” edible, it is not recommended. Anemones are poisonous. They kill their prey with their poisonous tentacles.
