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  • Nº47 # Date: 1990-02-15 - 15:00
  • # Max Depth: 8m Duration: 40mins
Diver's Notes

Crap day mostly. First Stonefish Sighting. ~8 inches long. Poked it with a broken staghorn and watched spine stand up. Did some feeding -- mostly sweetlips with some baitfish Mark brought along.

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  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Visibility: Bad Water: Salt
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Synanceia horrida (Linnaeus, 1766) (Estuarine stonefish) Inhabits coastal reefs and estuaries . Makes a shallow depression by scooping up sand or mud with its pectoral fins until it is piled up around the sides of its body. Lies motionless on sandy bottom areas. Comes out at ...
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Scorpaenopsis diabolus (Cuvier, 1829) (False stonefish) Relatively an uncommon inhabitant of rubble or weedy coralline-rock bottoms of reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs . Benthic . Flashes its inner pectoral fins when disturbed . Can inflict a painful injury with its venomous dorsal sting. Often partly buried .
Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia (Bleeker, 1855) (goldenlined sweetlips) In coastal reef slopes, inner reefs and deep lagoon . Prefers sheltered reefs and during the day either solitary or in large inactive aggregations .

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