Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 20 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, reef slopes
The spotfin lionfish (ragged-finned firefish) is a small lionfish striped with red and white, with long filaments above the eyes. Its spines are venomous.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is called tataraihau.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Poisson-zèbre.
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