Also known as butterfly cod, turkey fish; scientific name pterois volitans. A fairly large marine fish for the aquarium with a royal blue body, yellow tail, and black palette design on their body.

TOPSHOT - A freediver cuts the spines off a caught lionfish (Pterois miles), typically native to ... [+] Indo-Pacific waters and currently invading the eastern Mediteranean sea, near the surface ...

However, these habitats are being threatened by invasive red lionfish (Pterois volitans), which are wiping out smaller fish ...