Lionfish

The lionfish is known as Muhammad Ali of the sea:it floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. The lionfish is brilliant with its willowy,spiky and scarlet, zebralike patterns. It has a venomous punch in its dorsal, anal and pelvic spines and can easily pierce or stab a predator and prey. The red lionfish lives in coral and rocky reefs to depth up to fifty meters that are near and offshore. Its huge mouth operates like a vacuum cleaner. It hunts during the day. The lionfish is one one of the most venomous fish on the ocean floor. The lionfish are voraious predators. The lionfish generally reaches a size of thirty cm. to thity five cm. the lionfish's' prey are crabs, shrimps, fish. The preditors are sharks, moral eels, cornet fish and humans. the lionfishs' exhibt is in the wild reef exhibit.

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