![]() It likes warm waters and may spread as it searches for food and habitat.Aquariums will dump the lionfish free and that is how it has become invasive.Thought to be first found in the Atlantic waters when Florida aquarium was damaged during The species is found throughout Micronesia. Korea, south to Lord Howe Island off the east coast of Australia, the Kermadec Islands of New Zealand. Pitcairn Islands, north to southern Japan, southern NOAA lists native areas as western Australia, Malaysia, east to French Polynesia, the United.Native to coral reefs in the warm tropical waters of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.Similar species include: Lionfish are related to the scorpionfish and the stone fish which Have 13 dorsal spines, red and white stripes, feather-like pectoral rays, Marine fish containing venom, pectoral fins (a pair of fins just behind theįish’s head) are fan-shaped, and a spiky first dorsal fin. Of fins just behind the fish’s head) and caudal fin (tail fin) usually rounded. Like a boundary) between lower rays are often notched, pectoral fin (a pair Head and body tend to be spiny or have bony plates, membranes (acts They areĭistinguished by the possession of a notochord (very large cells that areĪrranged within a protective sheath) at some stage during theirįin rays: fins are webs of skin supported by horny spines (rays), fin raysĪttach directly to the basal (bottom layer or base) skeletal elements. Many-celled, able to move, and they eat plants or other animals.Īnimals that have a skeleton made of either bone or cartilage. ![]()
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