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African lionfish

Pterois mombasae

名字的由來： The name refers to Mombasa in Kenya, the place where the fish was first described.1

需要看醫生不要碰很少致命，但如果被牠的棘刺刺到，要去看醫生。

有毒液的魚

有毒液的棘刺

對人的危險: 嚴重如果被牠的棘刺刺到，要去看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

The African lionfish is a striking marine fish from the scorpionfish and lionfish family. It lives in the tropical Indian Ocean, where it is often found on soft, muddy sea floors. Its spines can harm people, so it is worth knowing what it looks like.1

分布在

Indian Ocean, from the eastern African coast between Kenya and South Africa, Madagascar, the Maldives, India and east to the Andaman Sea.1

印度洋, 紅海

首頁

It is a rare visitor to rocky bottoms on deep offshore reefs. It is usually found on soft or muddy sea floors with thick ridges of rubble, among rich growths of sponges and other invertebrates.1

長度

31 cm (1 ft)1

最高速度

大約 4,8 km/h（3 mph）

游泳, 粗略估計

African lionfish 的照片 — African lionfish。照片：Diego Delso。 CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎麼認出牠

Many brown to brownish red bars run along the body, and the bars near the base of the tail are thin and wavy.1
A brownish red spot, smaller than the pupil of the eye, sits on the lower gill cover.1
The soft-rayed parts of the dorsal, anal and tail fins are see-through, with small brownish red spots scattered on the rays.1
The pelvic fin is blackish.1
The dorsal fin has 13 spines and 10 soft rays. It has no tentacles above the eyes, or only very small ones.1

常被誤認為： A closely related species, Pterois paucispinula, lives in the Western Pacific Ocean. The African lionfish is limited to the Indian Ocean, so the location of a sighting helps tell the two apart.1

毒液力量

有毒液的棘刺

尖銳的棘刺帶著毒液。踩到或抓到牠都會很痛。

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 嚴重如果被牠的棘刺刺到，要去看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

Its spines can harm people who come into contact with it.1

如果牠的棘刺刺到你

把傷口泡在熱水裡，水溫要在傷者能忍受、又不會燙傷的範圍內（先用你自己的手試水溫），泡 30 到 90 分鐘。要就醫，特別是被石頭魚和魟魚刺傷時。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠的棘刺刺到：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲印度洋紅海

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 10 塊玩具積木排成一排一樣長可以在 38 秒內游完一座大游泳池（50 公尺）

African lionfish 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一個正在游泳的人 大約 3 km/h (1,9 mph)

African lionfish 大約 4,8 km/h (3 mph)

奧運游泳選手 大約 8 km/h (5 mph)

值得知道

小知識

In 2014, scientists described a similar species from the Western Pacific Ocean. They found that the African lionfish was restricted to the Indian Ocean, and that the new species had been overlooked before.1

When Smith described it, he thought it looked most like a fish from Hawaii, Pterois sphex.1