Indo-Pacific lionfish ( Pterois volitans and P. miles ) are the first marine teleost to have successfully invaded become established in Western Atlantic Ocean of United States, Gulf Mexico (GoM), Caribbean Sea. were reported Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS), a protected coral reef system northwestern GoM, 2011. Little is understood about life history characteristics this e...

We present HotSpotter, a fast, accurate algorithm for identifying individual animals against a labeled database. It is not species specific and has been applied to Grevy’s and plains zebras, giraffes, leopards, and lionfish. We describe two approaches, both based on extracting and matching keypoints or “hotspots”. The first tests each new query image sequentially against each database image, ge...

Draft ARC Worksheet August 22, 2014 Page 6 of 6 This article describes 51 cases of Scorpaenidae envenomation, 45 of which were lionfish stings to aquarists or fish handlers. The primary manifestation of envenomation in all victims was intense local pain. Various other local and systemic symptoms were also noted. Immersion in hot water produced either complete (80%) or moderate (14%) symptomatic...

The present study is an attempt to evaluate the antiproliferative potential of peptide (7.6 kDa) from lionfish (Pterios volitans) venom on cultured HEp2 and HeLa cells. Different dose of purified peptide (1, 2 and 4 microg/ml) at different time points (12, 24 and 36 hrs) were tested for antiproliferative index of the peptide. Among them, 2 microg/ml at 24 hrs was found to effectively inhibit ca...

This study presents updated information on six exotic aquatic species (five crustaceans and one fish): Macrobrachium rosenbergii, Penaeus monodon, Charybdis hellerii, Balanus trigonus, Amphibalanus improvisus, Pterois volitans. The research is based bibliographic available in scientific articles published by the Research Group Fishing Evaluation of Tropical Fishery Resources Biological Photogra...

The food composition and dietary overlap of the Pterois volitans P. miles were studied in İskenderun Bay. main prey groups found stomachs fishes crustaceans. study has shown that Niche overlap-Pianka's index these species was 83,2%. Most stomach contents for both not identified. Fish shirimps freqently. However reef parts, moss residuals, molluscs shell parts crab content rarely. Chlorophthalmu...