lionfish

Any of various colorful scorpionfishes chiefly of the genera Pterois and Dendrochirus, native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans but introduced elsewhere, having a striped body with long pectoral fins and venomous spines in the dorsal fin.

Any of the venomous fish of the Pterois or Scorpaenidae family, notable for their long and separated spines

brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins