It is the most widespread species in the stonefish family, and is known from shallow tropical marine waters in the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, ranging from the Red Sea and coastal East Africa to French Polynesia, southern Japan and surrounding Taiwan. This stonefish lives primarily above the Tropic of Capricorn. This species reaches a maximum recorded total length of 40 cm (16 in) but 27 cm (11 in) is more typical. The small upwardly directed eyes have a deep pit behind them with a smaller pit underneath them.
Stone fish danbooru skin#
The skin has no scales but there are numerous warts. The dorsal spines are of equal length with a thicker sheath of skin containing the venom glands at their base. The dorsal fin contains between 12 and 14 spines and 5 and 7 soft rays while the anal fin has 3 spines and 5 or 6 soft rays. Synanceia verrucosa are usually brown or grey, and may have areas of yellow, orange, or red. The specific name verrucosa means “covered with verrucas or warts”, an allusion to the warty growths all over its body. Bloch and Schneider described a new genus, Synanceia, for this species but in 1856 Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest designated Scorpaena horrida, which had been described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766, as the type species of Synanceia. Synanceia verrucosa was first formally described in 1801 by the German naturalists Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider with the type locality given as India. It is the deadliest fish in the sea, with highly effective venom which can be lethal to humans. It is the most widespread species of stonefish, mostly found in shallow waters of the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific. Synanceia verrucosa, the reef stonefish or simply stonefish, is a species of venomous, marine ray-finned fish, a stonefish belonging to the subfamily Synanceiinae which is classified as being within the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. Reef stonefish in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Synanceichthys verrucosus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).Synanceichthys verrucosa (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).
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