A. rubrocinctus and A. melanopus are geographically distinct.
 A. rubrocinctus has a distribution restricted to north western Australia while A melanopus is widely distributed in the western Pacific, from the Great Barrier Reef north to the Marshall Islands and Guam, New Guinea and from Vanuatu and New Caledonia to eastern Indonesia.
There are significant color-pattern differences, with A. melanopus having a dark brown or blackish body, compared to the red orange of A. barberi.
 A. melanopus also has 19-26 spines in the upper-opercular series while A. barberi has only 11-19.
A. rubrocinctus and A. melanopus are geographically distinct.  A. rubrocinctus has a distribution restricted to north western Australia while A melanopus is widely distributed in the western Pacific, from the Great Barrier Reef north to the Marshall Islands and Guam, New Guinea and from Vanuatu and New Caledonia to eastern Indonesia. There are significant color-pattern differences, with A. melanopus having a dark brown or blackish body, compared to the red orange of A. barberi.  A. melanopus also has 19-26 spines in the upper-opercular series while A. barberi has only 11-19.
Amphiprion barberi