Stonefish (redirected from Synanceia verrucosa)

rockfish

 or stonefish

Name applied to species in the scorpion-fish family (Scorpaenidae), including the lionfish, redfish, and zebra fish. In North America the name is also applied to the eastern mudminnow (Umbra pygmaea, family Umbridae), one of several hardy fishes of cool, mud-bottomed ponds, lakes, and streams. Eastern mudminnows frequently bury themselves, tail first, in the mud. They are often used as bait.

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Stonefish 

(Synanceia verrucosa), a fish of the Synance-jidae family of the order Scleroparei. Its naked skin is covered with warts and growths. It lives in the tropics of the Indian and pacific oceans and in the Red Sea. Length, up to 40 cm.

At the base of the spiny rays of the dorsal fin the stonefish has paired poisonous cutaneous glands in the form of a compact mass of serous cells, distributed in warts on each side of the spines. A prick of its spines is extremely dangerous and occasionally fatal. The meat of the stonefish is used for food.