Scorpionfish

Although most of us had our heads in our soups through tiredness, we managed a "light supper" of a loaf or two of bread each, plus helpings of razor clams, clams, squid, Sóller prawns, scorpionfish, sea bream and red bream, followed by homemade almond ice cream. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There is a possible foreign body issue (i.e., risk for infection) if spikes from scorpionfish, stonefish, lionfish or spiny dogfish remain in the victim. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They had stone fish and scorpionfish, and black-tipped reef sharks and a lot of Australian coral reef fish so that was cool to show the kids, and remind them what they'd seen a couple years back. ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2008)

The cool things I saw: lionfish and leafy scorpionfish, a blue tang (aka "Dory" in Finding Nemo), clownfish and anemones (aka "Nemo" in Finding Nemo), unicorn fish, parrotfish, triggerfish. ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2008)

So, of course worried about being stung, I took to carrying rocks and trying to hit the scorpionfish with them whenever I saw them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The scorpionfish looks like a sandy gray version of the lionfish. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The scorpionfish likes to sit still on the floor and watch you, and when shooed, only swims a couple feet then stops. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The more menacing scorpionfish receives it name from the mildly poisonous spines on its back. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Rockfish, “ocean perch,” U.S. coastal “snappers” (Sebastes); scorpionfish (Scorpaena) ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

* Project Gutenberg ed. note: The picture is of a fish also known as a scorpionfish. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish. ❋ Darryl Leniuk (2011)

Featuring diverse marine life including whale shark and eagle ray at Black Rock, octopus, lionfish, snapper and other schooling fish, jellyfish, nurse shark and stingrays at Shark Cave, scorpionfish, crocodilefish, cave diving at Western ❋ Unknown (2010)