Lionfish Gallery

Lionfish, Pterois volitans, and blue blanquillo

Lionfish, Pterois volitans, and blue blanquillo, Taenianotus latovittatus. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Common Lionfish with soft corals Yellow Wall of

Common Lionfish with soft corals Yellow Wall of Texas dive site, Horseshoe Bay, Nusa Kode, south Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia. Common Lionfish

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Blackfoot firefish (Parapterois heterura)

Blackfoot firefish (Parapterois heterura), Found in Asian-Pacific waters, Bali, Indonesia and north, this scorpionfish sometimes partly buries itself in sand or mud and has fan-like, non-filamentous pectoral fins that it uses to corner prey, or to startle a predator. Anilao, Manila, Philippines

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