Order: Perciformes (Perch-Like Fishes)

Suborder: Notothenioidei (Southern Cod / Icefishes)

Family: Bovichtidae (Temperate Icefishes / Thornfishes)

Bovichtus angustifrons _ Marblefish

Photo taken Flinders Pier on 21.04.2013                    

Suborder: Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes, Lionfishes, Stonefishes, Sea Robins and Flatheads)

Family: Aploactindae (Velvetfish)

Aploactisoma milesii _ Southern Velvetfish                 Paraploactis kagoshimensis _ Phantom Velvetfish

Photo taken Blairgowrie Pier on 05.03.2021                            Photo taken Puerto Galera, Philippines on 30.10.2018

Family: Neosebastidae (Gurnard Perches)

Maxillicostascabriceps _ Little Gurnard Perch               Neosebastes scorpaenoides _ Common_Gurnard_Perch

Photo taken Blairgowrie Pier on 21.10.2010                  Photo taken Blairgowrie Pier on 19.05.2019

Family: Pataecidae (Prowfish) 

Pataecus fronto _ Red Indianfish

Photo taken Bare Island, NSW on 21.09.2008

Family: Platycephalidae (Flatheads)

Platycephalus speculator _ Southern Bluespotted Flathead            Platycephalus laevigatus _ Rock Flathead

Photo taken Rye Pier on 30.01.2011                                                Photo taken Frankston Pier on 11.01.2014  

Family: Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfish)

Dendrochirus zebra _ Zebra Lionfish                                            Spotfin Lionfish_Pterois antennata

Photo taken Puerto Galera, Philippines on 09.10.2022                Photo taken Tulamben, Indonesia on 16.10.2011

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