Red lionfish
Pterois miles
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Pterois
Where to Find
Found in 32 diving areas across 19 countries and 5 regions.
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 12 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 24 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 8 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 12 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 6 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 19 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 15 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 10 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 11 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 24 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Ksamil, Albania - 1 records
- Crete, Greece - 63 records
- Dodecanese, Greece - 104 records
- Zakynthos & Ionian Islands, Greece - 28 records
- Bodrum, Turkey - 68 records
- Kas & Kekova, Turkey - 5 records
- Dahab, Egypt - 32 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 30 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 30 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 30 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 7 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records