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Reef Stonefish
Synanceia verrucosa Bloch & Schneider, 1801
A Reef Stonefish photographed in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan.
The Reef Stonefish has thirteen stout dorsal fin spines which can inject an extremely poisonous venom. This species is extremely well camouflaged and will not swim away when disturbed, but rather erects its poisonous dorsal fin spines.
Human deaths have resulted from the venom of the Reef Stonefish.
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