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The Deadly Fishes Called Stones: Family Scorpaenidae, Subfamily Synanceinae

By Bob Fenner

A Stonefish in captivity

9 Genera, 31 Species: http://fishbase.sinica.edu.tw/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=578

Synanceia horrida (Linnaeus 1766), the Estuarine Stonefish. Distinguished from the more common S. verrucosa by its much more elevated eyes. Aquarium photo.
http://fishbase.sinica.edu.tw/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.cfm?Country=Indonesia&Genus=Synanceia&Species=horrida

Synanceia verrucosa Bloch & Schneider 1801, the Stonefish. Indo-Pacific; Red Sea, East Africa to French Polynesia. To sixteen inches in length. The celebrated rock-like pug-ugly Stonefish (there are others called by this name). Worlds most widely distributed stonefish and most venomous. Here in an aquarium, and S. Sulawesi. 
http://fishbase.sinica.edu.tw/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.cfm?Country=Indonesia&Genus=Synanceia&Species=verrucosa
 
 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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