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Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea, to South Africa, and to Indonesia Pterois mombasae (J. L. B. Smith, 1957) African lionfish, frill-fin turkeyfish: tropical Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Pterois paucispinula (Matsunuma & Motomura, 2014) [12] India to northern Australia (Timor Sea); north to southern Japan; eastward to Wallis and Futuna Islands
Pterois mombasae, the African lionfish, deepwater firefish or frillfin turkeyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes. It is found in the tropical Indian Ocean , typically in soft-bottomed areas of the ocean, often in conjunction with invertebrate growth (for example ...
Pterois russelii was first formally described in 1831 by the English naturalist Edward Turner Bennett with the type locality given as Coromandel Coast in India. [4] Molecular studies, and some morphological data too, have indicated that this species and the luna lionfish (P. lunulata) are the same species, P. russelii. [5]
The lionfish most likely got its name from the 18 venomous spines that fan out across its body like a lion’s mane. Get stung by one and you could experience pain and swelling, and even paralysis.
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The lionfish is a venomous coral reef fish. [11] Unlike stonefish, a lionfish can release venom only if something strikes its spines. Although not native to the U.S. coast, lionfish have appeared around Florida and have spread up the coast to New York, possibly due to a hurricane washing captive specimens into natural waters. Lionfish can ...
Some authorities consider that the population in the southwestern Indian Ocean, which was described as Pterois nigripinnis by the Scottish born South African ichthyologist John Dow Fisher Gilchrist in 1904 from the mouth of the Ohlanga River in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, is a valid species Parapterois nigripinnis.
Pterois antennata, the spotfin lionfish, banded lionfish, broadbarred lionfish, broadbarred firefish, raggedfinned firefish, raggedfinned scorpionfish or roughscaled lionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes.