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Demon Stinger

Inimicus didactylus

Photo by JordiPrats
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Field Notes

Description:

With a bold compressed body, about 30cm in size approx. Sandy or Greenish in color and with numerous venomous spinal columns along its spine, the Demon Stinger is closely related to the true stonefishes some of the most venomous fish known.

Habitat:

Spotted at Pulu Cinta - Sulawesi, a sandy atoll reef, hidden on the reef.
They are widespread in tropical and temperate seas, but mostly found in the Indo-Pacific.

Notes:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Acanthopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Synanceiidae
Genus: Inimicus
Species: I. didactylus

Reference Links:

Inimicus didactylus - Wikipedia

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)
JordiPrats
Thanks a lot Daniele! It was a really impressive fish and extraordinary atoll full of live and cristal clear waters (Pulu Cinta - Sulawesi)
DanielePralong
You're on a roll Jordi! This extraordinary Demon Stinger is our Spotting of the Day! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah/photos/pb.10150120463815603.-2207520000.1486595872./10158230067980603/?type=3&theater Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/829468653179518976
JordiPrats
Yes true a very scary face! And really appropiate name ;)
AlbertKang
Jordi, if you look up the Wikipedia link, the face do looks quite similar, which is part of the reason for the name - Demon Stinger.
JordiPrats
Hi Albert, thanks for the ID, this pic is the best I have, it was absolutely static and just the head was visible as it was inside a hole in the coral.
AlbertKang
Hi Jordi, do you have more pictures of this Spotting? Did it flared out its pectoral fins in a defensive display to show colourful pectoral fins? I think this is likely the Demon Stinger - Inimicus didactylus, and not a Stonefish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inimicus_didactylus
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2017

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