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Lionfish have 18 venomous spines total: 2 pelvic spines, 3 anal spines, and 13 dorsal spines. Pterois is a genus of venomous marine fish, commonly known as the lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific. It is characterized by conspicuous warning coloration with red or black bands and ostentatious dorsal fins tipped with venomous spines.
This particular Ife Head was taken from Nigeria by the editor of the Daily Times of Nigeria, H. Maclear Bate, who probably sold it to the National Art Collections Fund, [6] [7] which then passed it onto the British Museum in 1939. The discovery of the sculptures was the spur for the government to control the export of antiquities from Nigeria.
Pterois antennata, the spotfin lionfish, banded lionfish, broadbarred lionfish, broadbarred firefish, raggedfinned firefish, raggedfinned scorpionfish or roughscaled lionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes.
The tentacles on the lacrimal bone are long, their length being more than two times the diameter of the eye. The overall colour of this lionfish is reddish-brown. there are 2, sometimes 3, large black eye like spots, or ocelli, on the soft-rayed part of the dorsal fin, there are 3 pink to yellowish bars on the flanks.
Blackfoot lionfish: Parapterois heterura: Caution: 23.0 cm (9.1 in) Devil lionfish: Pterois mombasae: Caution: 20 cm (7.9 in) Fu Man Chu lionfish: Dendrochirus biocellatus: Caution: 13.0 cm (5.1 in) [75] Fuzzy dwarf lionfish: Dendrochirus brachypterus: Caution: Carnivore; Males 6< stripes on pectoral fin females >6: 18 cm (7.1 in) Green ...
Dendrochirus barberi, the Hawaiian lionfish or green lionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes. It occurs in the Eastern Central Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade.
The earliest gold artifacts were discovered at the site of Wadi Qana in the Levant. [13] Silver is estimated to have been discovered in Asia Minor shortly after copper and gold. [14] There is evidence that iron was known from before 5000 BC. [15] The oldest known iron objects used by humans are some beads of meteoric iron, made in Egypt in ...
The Lionfish (Pterois) is a genus of venomous predatory fish. It may also refer to: Red lionfish ( P. volitans ), a significant invasive species off the East Coast of North America and in the Caribbean