Pterois volitans Red Lionfish, Butterfly Cod, Butterfly-cod, Featherfins, Fire Fish, Lionfish, Ornate Butterfly-cod, Red Firefish, Scorpion-cod, Turkeyfish, Turkey-fish, Zebrafish, Common Lionfish

Pterois volitans is commonly referred to as Red Lionfish, Butterfly Cod, Butterfly-cod, Featherfins, Fire Fish, Lionfish, Ornate Butterfly-cod, Red Firefish, Scorpion-cod, Turkeyfish, Turkey-fish, Zebrafish, Common Lionfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Only for advanced aquarists. A aquarium size of at least 1000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic.

Profile

lexID:

54 

AphiaID:

159559 

Scientific:

Pterois volitans 

German:

Rotfeuerfisch 

English:

Red Lionfish, Butterfly Cod, Butterfly-cod, Featherfins, Fire Fish, Lionfish, Ornate Butterfly-cod, Red Firefish, Scorpion-cod, Turkeyfish, Turkey-fish, Zebrafish, Common Lionfish 

Category:

Stenfisk 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Scorpaenidae (Family) > Pterois (Genus) > volitans (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Hong Kong, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Austral Islands, Australia, Bakers Island, Bali, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Christmas Islands, Columbia, Cook Islands, Corea, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, East cost of USA, Eastern Indian Ocean, Fiji, Florida, French Polynesia, Gilbert Islands, Guam, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Howland Island, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Invasive Species, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Lesser Sunda Islands, Line Islands, Lord Howe Island, Malaysia, Marquesas Islands, Marschall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New South Wales (Australia), New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Northern Territory (Australia), Ogasawara Islands, Palau, Panama, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Queensland (Australia), Raja Amat, Red Sea, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Spratly Islands, Sumatra, Taiwan, Thailand, The Bahamas, The Bangai Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, The Ryukyu Islands, the Society Islands, Timor, Togean Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuamoto Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, West-Atlantic Ocean, Western Australia 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

2 - 55 Meter 

Habitats:

Coastal waters, Coral reefs, Lagoons, Reef-associated, Seaward facing reefs, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

6.3" - 17.72" (16cm - 45,7cm) 

Weight:

1.4 kg 

Temperature:

22,4 °F - 84.2 °F (22,4°C - 29°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Crabs, Fish (little fishes), Living Food, Predatory, Schrimps 

Tank:

219.98 gal (~ 1000L)  

Difficulty:

Only for advanced aquarists 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Pterois andover
  Andover-Rotfeuerfisch
• 
  Pterois antennata
  Antennen-Feuerfisch
• Pterois brevipectoralis
• 
  Pterois lunulata
  Japanischer Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois miles
  Rotfeuerfisch
• 
  Pterois mombasae
  Afrikanischer Feuerfisch, Mombasa Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois radiata
  Strahlen-Rotfeuerfisch
• 
  Pterois russelii
  Russels Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois sphex
  Hawaii-Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois volitans
  Rotfeuerfisch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Pterois cincta
  Rotmeer-Skorpionsfisch
• 
  Pterois n sp.
  Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois paucispinula
  Skorpionsfisch, Rotfeuerfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2004-08-20 17:29:48 

Last edit:

2024-11-01 19:48:03 

Toxicity

Pterois volitans is (very) poisonous and the poison can kill you under circumstances!!!
If you want to keep Pterois volitans, inform yourself about the poison and its effects before buying. Keep a note with the telephone number of the poison emergency call and all necessary information about the animal next to your aquarium so that you can be helped quickly in an emergency.
The telephone numbers of the poison emergency call can be found here:
[overview_and_url_DE]
Overview Europe: European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists

This message appears for poisonous, very poisonous and also animals whose poison can kill you immediately. Every human reacts differently to poisons. Please therefore weigh the risk for yourself AND your environment very carefully, and never act lightly!

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