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Pterois is a genus of venomous marine fish, commonly known as #lionfish, native to the #IndoPacific. Also called firefish, turkeyfish, tastyfish, or butterfly-cod, it is characterized by conspicuous warning coloration with red, white, creamy, or black bands, showy pectoral fins, and venomous, spiky fin rays. Pterois radiata, Pterois volitans, and Pterois miles are the most commonly studied species in the genus. Pterois species are popular aquarium fish. P. volitans and P. miles are recent and significant invasive #species in the west Atlantic, #Caribbean Sea and #Mediterranean Sea.

Pterois was described as a genus in 1817 by #German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist Lorenz Oken. In 1856 the #French naturalist Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest designated Scorpaena volitans, which had been named by Bloch in 1787 and which was the same as Linnaeus's 1758 Gasterosteus volitans, as the type species of the genus.
This genus is classified within the tribe Pteroini of the subfamily Scorpaeninae within the #family Scorpaenidae. The genus name Pterois is based on Georges Cuvier's 1816 French name, “Les Pterois”, meaning "fins" which is an allusion to the high dorsal and long pectoral #fins.

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