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"The potency of their venom makes them excellent predators and poisonous to fishermen and divers." -- Does their venom actually play a role in their predation, or is it merely defensive?? Chris k ( talk) 20:56, 12 October 2012 (UTC) reply

Yes, i have a question.. Can the Lion Fish be found in Waters just off the Central Coast NSW, Australia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.144.240 ( talk) 07:17, 16 February 2009 (UTC) reply

Mimicry is an animal looks like another one. Is this supposed to mean camouflage? howcheng { chat} 00:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC) reply

Is their any data if eating the lionfish endangers oneself to Ciguatera poison? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Noserider ( talk • contribs) 13:19, 12 May 2011 (UTC) reply

Under the section Predators and parasites citation 18 does not appear to point to a source supporting that sharks receive no ill-effects from its spines. Can anyone take a quick look to confirm this before I make the edit? User:JediScientist ( User talk:JediScientist) 09:33, 04 December 2013 (UTC) reply

I'm not familiar at all with anything about lionfish. But I was listening to the radio today and apparently a 12 year old girl discovered that they can survive in almost entirely freshwater conditions (she found this out for a science fair project). Her findings were replicated by recognized scientists, and published in a peer reviewed journal. Her name was cited as being the one to discover this. I would add this in myself, but like I said I am not familiar with this subject hardly at all, but thought it would be a good thing to put in wikipedia, that a 12 year old girl named Lauren discovered this, etc. Here are the two links, one for the news article, the other for the peer reviewed science journal:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/girls-science-project-nets-international-recogniti/ngRbD/ http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-014-0242-y Ddhix 2002 ( talk) 02:55, 9 July 2014 (UTC) reply

In fact, the fact that lionfish can thrive in fresh water was discovered in 2010 by Zachary Jud, a marine biology major at Florida International University. His published study can be found here: ^[1] Here's an informational poster that summarizes the findings: ^[2] Note that the father of the 12-year-old girl was one of the authors of the study. I am not sure why he is allowing the world to believe that his 12 year old daughter made this discovery. The newspaper that "broke" the story also should have known better: ^[3]

More background on this here: http://www.cflas.org/was-lionfish-research-hijacked-by-12-year-old-from-palm-beach-florida/ CLJahn ( talk) 02:10, 23 July 2014 (UTC)CL Jahn reply

1. I think the total amount of text makes this article a bit undue. There is too much focus on these species as "a trouble fish" in Florida and the Carribean. That part could form an article of it's own, in my oppinion. Strongly doubt they are a threat to the domestic sea fauna. If it had not been toxic, It would hardly be mentioned by f.i. NBC.

2. There are far worse matters to worry about, as the box-jellyfish Chironex fleckeri or the Sea Wasp appear to have spread to the same waters. Boeing720 ( talk) 14:34, 27 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Where the links below came from is a big question mark for me. Boeing720 ( talk) 14:37, 27 August 2015 (UTC) reply

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I just want to leave a note that “tastyfish” is a name made up by the brothers on the podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me as part of a campaign to encourage people to eat this invasive (but again, poisonous) fish. I won’t remove “tastyfish” from the AKAs since you could make a case that this is indeed a real AKA, but there should be some record that this name was probably added out of someone’s personal desire. Prell ( talk) 14:00, 14 December 2018 (UTC) reply

The section title Description is as follows:

"Pterois are harmful to humans. Juvenile lionfish have a unique tentacle located above their eye sockets that varies in phenotype between species. The evolution of this tentacle is suggested to serve to continually attract new prey; studies also suggest it plays a role in sexual selection."

The first sentence is very interesting. But this section gives no information about how pterois are "harmful to humans".

I hope someone knowledgeable about this subject can elaborate on this point and explain in what way these fish are harmful to humans.

Otherwise, this sentence should probably be deleted. 2601:200:C080:630:F586:D5D7:89B0:BA10 ( talk) 13:55, 3 January 2021 (UTC) reply

Did I miss it, or is there no mention of size? I'm reading on a phone, so might have overlooked it... Samatva ( talk) 15:01, 3 January 2021 (UTC) reply

No, you are not alone, there is no mention of its size. It is probably around 15-25 cm from what I remember, but in wild they may get bigger.

I am pretty sure Pterois Miles can get up to 35cm, I don't exactly know where you got 15-25cm from, but if you can give me a link to the evidence go ahead, I am looking for it myself KittenGosCrazy ( talk) 15:39, 14 September 2021 (UTC) reply

For the evaluation I just figured I'd check some of the links; I noticed that this one, number 26, from the show "Species of Mass Destruction," doesn't work. Ossp001 ( talk) 20:27, 9 September 2021 (UTC) reply

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