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Synanceia verrucosa, the reef stonefish or simply stonefish, is a species of venomous, marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the subfamily Synanceiinae which is classified as being within the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives.
Scorpaenopsis diabolus, the false stonefish, false scorpionfish or the devil scorpionfish, [3] is a species of venomous marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It has venomous spines and lives in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans as well as in the Red Sea.
The most venomous known fish is the reef stonefish. [8] [9] It has a remarkable ability to camouflage itself amongst rocks. It is an ambush predator that sits on the bottom waiting for prey to approach. Instead of swimming away if disturbed, it erects 13 venomous spines along its back. For defense it can shoot venom from each or all of these ...
Synanceia nana has 14-15 pectoral rays as well as 14 dorsal spines all possessing dark margins. [4] The anal fin is composed of three spines and four to six soft rays. [ 5 ] Dwarf scorpionfish, as the name would suggest, are relatively small compared to similar species in the genus, never exceeding 135mm. [ 4 ]
The dorsal fin contains between 11 and 17 spines and 8 and 17 soft rays while the anal fin usually has between 1 and 3 spines, normally 3, and 3 to 9 soft rays, typically 5, There is a single spine in the pelvic fin and between 2 and 5 soft rays, again typically 5, while the large pectoral fin contains 11–25 soft rays and sometimes has a few ...
3.5 cm (1.4 in) Green clown goby: Gobiodon atrangulatus: Yes: 4 cm (1.6 in) Hector's goby: Amblygobius hectori: Yes: 8 cm (3.1 in) Hi fin red banded goby: Stonogobiops nematodes: Yes: 5 cm (2.0 in) Neon goby: Elacatinus oceanops: Yes: A Caribbean cleaner species that sometimes eats larger parasites from other fish. Orange marked goby ...
Australia is infamously full of things that can kill you. One of the most fearsome is the saltwater crocodile, the world’s largest reptile. If you invade this bad boy’s space, he will clamp ...
Gobiodon citrinus, the poison goby, is a species of goby native to the Indian Ocean from the Red Sea and the coast of Africa to the western Pacific Ocean to Japan, Samoa and the Great Barrier Reef. They are reef dwellers being found at depths of from 2 to 20 metres (7 to 66 ft) and in association with Acropora corals.