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Updated 11/6/2012

Family Scorpaenidae

INDO-PACIFIC

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC 

 

Pterois volitans

Wakatobi, Indonesia, 30 feet

 

Juvenile, Dumaguete, Philippines

Vandenburg wreck, Key West, 70 feet

Looe Key, Florida, 30 feet

LIONFISH or TURKEYFISH

Common on reefs, ledges, and wrecks.  Feeds at dawn & dusk.  Attains 2 feet.  Western Australia through S. Korea, New Zealand, & Polynesia, excluding Hawaii.  One of four similar species.   Introduced & invasive in the Tropical Western Atlantic.