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Pterois is a genus of venomous marine fish, commonly known as the lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific. It is characterized by conspicuous warning coloration with red or black bands, and ostentatious dorsal fins tipped with venomous spines. [3] [4] Pterois radiata, Pterois volitans, and Pterois miles are the most commonly studied species in the ...
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.
The zebra turkeyfish is a scorpaenid fish with vertical stripes in orange, white, and black on its body, and large, banded, fan-like pectoral fins that flare out on either side as the fish lies on the seabed. The front dorsal fin is made up of 13 tall, quill-like spines and the second dorsal fin has 10 or 11 soft rays.
The black and white snapper has a wide Indo-Pacific range. It occurs along the eastern coastline of Africa from the Red Sea south as far as South Africa, the Seychelles, islands in the Mozambique Channel, Madagascar and western Mascarenes, east to the Maldives, Laccadives, the Chagos Islands, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island and Sri Lanka.
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The overall color is brownish pink and white with irregular bright white and brown vertical barring on the flanks. In young fish there are supraorbital tentacles banded with black but these disappear in older fish. [5] This species attains a maximum total length of 22 cm (8.7 in). [4]
The luna lionfish also has white spots on the inner pectoral fin and some differences in the average length of that fin. It may be that P. lunulata is a morph of P. russelli . [ 4 ] There are scales with pale centres which create a lattice-like pattern on the bands on the body, the pectoral-fin rays have V-shapoed markings and the soft-rayed ...
A gorilla lifting one of the shutters at the zoo entrance to release a sea lion and birds with other animals looking out from inside. [4] It is the final image in the series. [ 4 ] The zoo later removed the original for safekeeping and replaced it with a replica.