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Estuarine stonefish

Synanceia horrida

Photo by Olivia Chee
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Rajamangala Aquarium

Notes:

Eats small fish, shrimp and other crustaceans, waiting for them to swim by. It is an ambush predator.

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Synanceia horrida

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Olivia Chee
That's the beauty of stonefish disguise. In the third picture, I thought it was a statue until it moved one fin.
alicelongmartin
Monster-like, need a diagram to identify the mouth and eyes!

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