Pterois russelii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Pterois
- Species
- Pterois russelii
- Scientific Name
- Pterois russelii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pterois russelii
Pterois russelii, the largetail turkeyfish, plaintail firefish, plaintail turkeyfish, Russell's firefish, Russell's lionfish, spotless butterfly-cod or the spotless firefish, is a species of ray-finned fish with venomous spines belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes. It is native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean from the eastern part of Africa to the Persian Gulf.
...Pterois russelii in languages:
- Arabic
- سمك الأسد شفاف الذيل
- Chinese
- 勒氏蓑鮋
- Czech
- perutýn Russelův
- English
- Cleartail Lionfish
- English
- Russell's Lionfish
- English
- Plaintail Lionfish
- English
- Plaintail Firefish
- English
- Largetail Turkeyfish
- English
- Spotless Butterfly-cod
- French
- Rascasse volante de Russel
- German
- Russells Feuerfisch
- Italian
- Pesce leone di Russel
- Italian
- Pesce leone coda larga
- Portuguese
- Peixe-leão-de-Russell
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