# Pez escorpión de cabeza plana (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-25, DD 202-203 FS

- By: Diego Delso
- Date: 2023-08-25
- Classification: Photograph
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Tasseled scorpionfish​ (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala), Ad Dimaniyat Islands, Oman. This species of venomous marine ray-finned fish has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution which extends from the Red Sea south to Sodwana Bay in South Africa and through the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf east to New Guinea, south to Australia and north to Taiwan. It attains a maximum published total length of 36 centimetres (14 in), the largest species in the genus Scorpaenopsis.