15 Interesting Facts About Adorable Clownfish (With Pictures)

5. Clownfish are very close to the Damselfish Clownfish and damselfish share a lot of qualities that they can also be considered cousins. This fact might be surprising because the two fish don't look like each other. Damselfish are primarily blue. The closeness between the two fish has caused some people to think that the character Dory in Finding Nemo was also a damselfish. But that is not true because Dory was a blue tang fish.