Marine life is in abundance, including trigger fish, moray eels, angelfish, butterfly fish, groupers, parrotfish, wrasses, scorpionfish, pufferfish, damselfish, rays, snappers, green sea turtles, hawksbill turtles, and dolphins.
The camouflage of the tassled scorpionfish can prevent gobies from seeing them until it's too late.
As the name suggests, scorpionfish have a type of sting in the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus.
In addition to the name scorpionfish, informal names for family members include firefish, turkeyfish, dragonfish, and stingfish, usually with adjectives added.
Like many perciform fishes, scorpionfish are suction feeders that capture prey by rapidly projecting a suction field generated by expansion of the fish's buccal cavity.
Most scorpionfish, such as the stonefish, wait in disguise for prey to pass them by before swallowing, while lionfish often ambush their prey.
The tassled scorpionfish is an ambush predator that looks like part of a sea floor encrusted with coral and algae.
False scorpionfish have 36 to 44 lateral line scales.
