Dr. Hiroyuki Tanaka, Japan
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The large, mostly colorful and patterned / spotted pectoral fins are impressive and only become visible when the otherwise rather inconspicuous animal is swimming. Probably they serve to confuse possible predators.
The lower half of the inner pectoral fin with numerous scattered bluish spots; occasionally a black spot appears on the lower inner part of the pectoral fins.
Ther body of the gurnard is olive greenish or brownish when alive, the fish is capable of turning reddish due to stress.
Due to its diet, the predator is not suitable for home aquariums.
The artepithon "spinosus" means "spiny" and refers to the spine on both sides of the neck, the large spine on the humerus above the pectoral fins, a small spine on the two operculum, and the pair of spines on the lower corner of both preoperculum.
The spines are not associated with a venom gland
Synonym: Trigla spinosa McClelland, 1844
