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Related Articles: Lionfish & Their Relatives, Keeping Lionfishes and their Scorpaeniform Kin by Anthony Calfo and Robert Fenner, Subfamily Choridactylinae (Inimicinae), Subfamily Scorpaeninae (Rock and Scorpionfishes), Subfamily Synanceinae, the Stonefishes, Subfamily Tetraroginae, Sailback Scorpionfishes or Wasp Fishes, Family Triglidae, the Searobins or Gurnards, Family Dactylopteridae/Flying Gurnards

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The Deadly Fishes Called Stones: Family Scorpaenidae, Subfamily Synanceinae

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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