Clownfish really do make epic journey like that over-protective father Marlin takes in the movie Finding Nemo in an attempt to track down his missing son, scientists have found.
Some young clownfish travel a considerable distance to join fish in other groups, according to a study published in New Scientist.
But unlike in the Pixar film, the purpose of the journey is to find a prospective mate rather than a lost relative.
The clownfish migrations were discovered by Steve Simpson of the University of Exeter who analysed the DNA of two separate populations.
The groups, from the Arabian Sea, off Oman, live 250 miles (400km) apart.
Mr Simpson and his colleagues captured 136 clownfish from a northern group and 260 from one which lived further south and compared their genetic make-up.
They found one of the clownfish had migrated north from the southern group and 14 had travelled south from the northern group.
A small number of the fish in each group were hybrids, suggesting that some of the incomers had bred with natives from the group.
Mr Simpson said the fish migrate huge distances in order to share their genes, which helps strengthen their populations.
He suggests the finding could be good news for fish as they face a number of threats from global warming, including the heating up of their habitats and the acidification of seawater.
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