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Lionfish Range
Fast Facts
Type: Fish Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: Up to 15 years Size: 11.8 to 15 in (30 to 38 cm) Weight: Up to 2.6 lbs (1.2 kg) Group name: School Did you know?
Lionfish
A Lionfish is any of several species of venomous marine fish in the genera Pterois, Pteropterus. Parapterois, Brachypterois, Ebosia or Dendrochirus, family Scorpaenidae.
LIONFISH, SCORPIONFISH, & STONEFISH
SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION
FAST FACTS ...
Lionfish
Class: Actinopterygii
Status: IUCN: Not Listed; CITES: Not Listed
Little pied cormorant ...
LIONFISH - SCORPIONFISH - STONEFISH
SUBORDER DACTYLOPTEROIDEI
helmet gurnards
SUBORDER PLATYCEPHALOIDEI
Includes deepwater flatheads, searobins, armored gurnards, spiny flatheads, flatheads ...
A Common Lionfish at 'Steve's Bommie'
A Common Pike Eel caught at Lake Curalo
A Common Ponyfish caught off Mindoro Island
A Common Stingaree at South West Solitary Island
A Common Threefin at Shelly Beach
A Common Toadfish at Clifton Gardens ...
Dendrochirus barberi, Hawaiian Lionfish
Dendrochirus Zebra, Zebra Lionfish
Dendrogyra cylindricus, Pillar Coral
Dermatolepis dermatolepis, Leather Bass
Dichocoenia stokesi, Elliptical Star Coral
Diplobatis colombiensis, Colombian Electric Ray ...
clearfin lionfish (Pterois radiata)
clown butterfly (Chaetodon ornatissimus)
clown coris wrasse (Coris aygula)
clown goby (Gobiodon histrio)
clown sweetlips (Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides)
clown tang (Acanthurus lineatus) ...
Sculpin, Harlequin Tusk, Heniochus Butterfly Fish, Herring, Indigo Hamlet (Hypoplectrus indigo), Japanese Tang (Naso literatus), Jawfish (Opistognathus auritrons), Koran Angelfish (Pomacanthodes semiciculatus), Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), Lionfish, ...
More lethal cousins of the rockfish are the lionfish and the stonefish.
The firefish (Pterois volitans), also known as the lionfish, was first described in 1758 by Dutch naturalist Johan Frederick Gronovius.
The Miscellaneous group of marine fish is for any type that doesn't belong to one of our other categories. Clownfish, Lionfish, Seahorses and Damsels all fall under this category.
From hometown catfish to exotic lionfish, the Saint Louis Zoo is home to dozens of fish species.
Cottus gobio (European bullhead)
Pterois volitans (Red Lionfish)
Sebastes marinus (Rose fish)
Trachinus draco (Greater weever) ...
Stony coral (Euphyllia ancora)
Common lionfish (Pterois volitans)
Asian sheepshead wrasse (Semicossyphus reticulatus)
Branching frogspawn coral (Euphyllia paradivisa)
Greasy grouper (Epinephelus tauvina) ...
Some fish, though, such as Hawkfish, Lionfish, and some predatory shrimp and crabs may eat the Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp.
A few species, such as the Mimic Octopus have a fourth defense mechanism. They can combine their highly flexible bodies with their color changing ability to accurately mimic other, more dangerous animals such as lionfish and eels.
 See also: Coral, Shrimp, Zebra, Swallow, Parrot
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