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Marine Fish (86) - Catfish (4): Spotted Fin Fish

author:Qiu Dongping

鮋, which I understand as the classification of fish by the ancients, dictionary parse "fish, flattened body; head with many spiny protrusions, large mouth, living in offshore rocks, many species." ”

Marine Fish (86) - Catfish (4): Spotted Fin Fish

Taken off the coast of Chumphon, Thailand, on October 6, 2019

A catfish is a lionfish.

Marine Fish (86) - Catfish (4): Spotted Fin Fish

Spot-finned catfish, one of the species of fish in the family Anchovy, is also known as the Indian Ocean scorpion.

Marine Fish (86) - Catfish (4): Spotted Fin Fish

I have heard that the United States, Cuba and other countries are extremely flooded with this fish. In China, however, the sale of seafood is extremely delicious, almost extinct.

Marine Fish (86) - Catfish (4): Spotted Fin Fish

It is nocturnal, swimming slowly in the dark water at night with its back and hip fins, and hiding in the shadows of corals and rocks as the sun rises.

Marine Fish (86) - Catfish (4): Spotted Fin Fish

Underwater, it is not difficult to photograph lionfish, just slowly approach.

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