Zebra Turkeyfish in the sea in front of Sulawesi

Zebra Turkeyfish

The Zebra turkeyfish or Zebra lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra, is a carnivorous ray-finned fish with venomous spines that lives in the Indian and western Pacific oceans. This member of the scorpion fish family has thirteen venomous spines along its back, used to defend itself. These fish are slow-moving and peaceful, but can be dangerous. They have a habit of resting in places hidden from light such as under a rock or a piece of coral. They are immune to each other's poison. They are solitary fish that aren't afraid of anything, as they have no natural predators.

It reaches a maximum 24 cm and inhabits tropical waters.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochirus_zebra - 20.11.2008

Zebra Turkeyfish

This variety of fins with one fish is astonishing:
Beginning with the gentle tail fin, across the more and more big and spinelike dorsal fins to the pectoral fins, which look like wings.

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