Ambon scorpionfish

Ambon scorpionfish ( Pteroidichthys amboinensis )

The Ambon scorpionfish ( Pteroidichthys amboinensis ) is a benthic marine fish of the family, the scorpion fish ( Scorpaenidae ) and is the only species of the genus Pteroidichthys (name: because of similarity to Pterois ).

Dissemination

He lives disjoint in the Red Sea and the western Indo-Pacific in Indonesia ( Sulawesi, Ambon and Bali), New Guinea, Japan, Ryukyu, Saipan, Vietnam and Madras especially on soft soils and algae fields at depths of 3 to 50 meters.

Features

The camouflaged with a variety of excesses animals can be yellow, brown, green or red, depending on the conditions prevailing in their habitat algal species. Pteroidichthys amboinensis is twelve inches long. About the upstanding eyes they have great skin fringed tentacles, and the rest of the body is camouflaged with skin fringe. The mouth has obliquely upward. The anal fin of the fish has two hard jets and 6 1/2 soft rays. With the help of the thoracic and pelvic fins he can slowly crawl across the seabed.