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. It is found in the tropical Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
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^Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Pterois antennata" in FishBase. February 2022 version.
with venomous spines. Pterois radiata, Pterois volitans, and Pterois miles are the most commonly studied species in the genus. Pterois species are popular...
to other zebra lionfish, or even to another species of lionfish (Pteroisantennata), to join them in better cornering the prey and taking turns at striking...
substrate of sufficient depth. "Lionfish" specifically refer to the genus Pterois within the family Scorpaenidae. They have venomous spines and should be...
Pacific) Broadbarred firefish Pteroisantennata (Bloch, 1787) (KwaZulu-Natal northwards and to central Pacific) Devil Firefish Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) (Port...
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