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Firefish
© Nico Mostert
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Firefish
© Nico Mostert
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| Scorpionfishes are a group of rather spiny and
often bizarre-looking fish that include several species with defensive
venomous fin spines.Wounds from touching the ends of these sharp spines
can cause severe pain.
Scorpionfishes are largely solitary, bottom-dwelling reef fishes that rely on their camouflage to avoid detection while they lie in ambush for small fish.The exceptions are the various species of lionfishes which tend to be free-swimming. |
Firefish (Lionfish, Devilfish)-A bizarre-looking fish with large, feather-like dorsal and pectoral fins. The body and head are crossed with alternate thick and thin red bands interspaced with white.When threatened it raises its venomous dorsal spines in defence. A free-swimming species, encountered on shipwrecks and beneath overhangs on coral and rocky reefs, either solitarily or in groups. juveniles are occasionally found in tidal pools. Primarily a nocturnal predator of small fish, |
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