Essay On Lionfish

Lionfish are venomous Marine fish found in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The fish have started invading the Atlantic waters. The Lionfish pose a great danger to the native ecology, and they might destabilize the ecology. They have a large appetite and are well adapted to evade their prey. The lionfish belong to kingdom Animalia and the Phylum Chordata. The fish lives in deep waters in the Coral feeding on the reef fish. The fish develop at a very fast rate such that a fingerling attains sexual maturity two years after hatching from the eggs.
Gross morphology and taxonomy.
Lionfish are the marine fish and they do have distinctive stripes that are brown to maroon as well as white in color that do cover the head and its body. Their fins are fan-like in the pectoral region. They also have long, separated dorsal spines, which are poisonous. The lionfish have oval to elliptical scales with a smooth surface. Adult Lionfish size ranges from 2.0 to 17.7 inches in length; juvenile lionfish may be as small as 1 inch in length. They weigh between 0.025 kg and 1.3kg, which is 0.055 pounds and 2.866 pounds. The lionfish are carnivorous and are commonly found in the Indo-Pacific water, and are currently invading the Atlantic. The lionfish live for averagely ten years. Lionfish belong to the Kingdom Animalia, under the phylum Chordata. They belong to Actinopterygii class and Order is the …show more content…
Lionfish are naturally found in Pacific and Indian Oceans. They are divided into native and non-native distribution. In these habitats, the lionfish live in areas that have coral reefs and the rocky regions ranging from 10 to 170 meters deep. The non-native distribution of Lionfish is found in, Florida coasts, Cape Hatteras, the Caribbean, and the North Carolina. The Juvenile lionfish can also be found in the regions of the New York as well as the Rhode Island. The fish in these regions might not be able to survive the cold winter