The scorpionfish looks like a sandy gray version of the lionfish. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: From the Field: August 9, 2006] Reference
The more menacing scorpionfish receives it name from the mildly poisonous spines on its back. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: Video Diary: August 3, 2007] Reference
The scorpionfish likes to sit still on the floor and watch you, and when shooed, only swims a couple feet then stops. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: From the Field: August 9, 2006] Reference
So, of course worried about being stung, I took to carrying rocks and trying to hit the scorpionfish with them whenever I saw them. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: From the Field: August 9, 2006] Reference
There is a possible foreign body issue (i.e., risk for infection) if spikes from scorpionfish, stonefish, lionfish or spiny dogfish remain in the victim. From Wordnik.com. [Fish poisonings and envenomations] Reference
The cool things I saw: lionfish and leafy scorpionfish, a blue tang (aka "Dory" in Finding Nemo), clownfish and anemones (aka "Nemo" in Finding Nemo), unicorn fish, parrotfish, triggerfish. From Wordnik.com. [the great barrier reef] Reference
We also spotted a moray eel and scorpionfish as well as amberjacks, bigeye, butterfly fish, hermit crabs. From Wordnik.com. [Oceana North America Blog: The Beacon] Reference
A cast of coral eggs, dugong, bigeye trevally, leaf scorpionfish, and 90 other marine creatures are the stars of Oceans. From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
I also saw lettuce slugs, a scorpionfish, a small orange sea horse, a spotted burrfish, a spotted trunkfish, spotted drum and a southern stingray. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
"Some people will travel thousands of kilometres (miles) to see these kinds of scorpionfish," explained Edoardo Spacca, an Italian criminologist who spends three months a year diving in Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Featuring diverse marine life including whale shark and eagle ray at Black Rock, octopus, lionfish, snapper and other schooling fish, jellyfish, nurse shark and stingrays at Shark Cave, scorpionfish, crocodilefish, cave diving at Western. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to China re-engages Myanmar ally] Reference
The visibility was not brilliant for our dives because of the current and the changing seasons, but it was wonderful to be underwater and we did see a hawksbill turtle (which was remarkably tame - our instructor actually touched its back) and several very cool scorpionfish. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
A poisonous and bizarre-looking creature commonly known as a weedy scorpionfish. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Instead it is the scorpionfish. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: From the Field: August 9, 2006] Reference
There were tons of big and beautiful scorpionfish (I would make Chris, my DM from Koh Tao, proud with how I can spot them now), lionfish, morey eels, white eyed eels, honeycomb eels (we had never seen the last two before in Thailand), several green turtles, nudibranches, a large sole, a massive and freaky looking black frogfish with a black and white tongue, spotted boxfish, flounders, large octopus, schools of batfish and many giant pufferfish. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
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