[Coral-List] Lionfish.
Alecia Adamson
alecia.adamson at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 14:38:21 EST 2011
Hello John and Coral List Subscribers,
That was a mis-print in the recent Dive Training Article. It should have
read "lionfish can reach lengths of up to a HALF a meter." I believe the
record for largest lionfish is still around 47 cm total length.
Alecia
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:16 AM, John Ware <jware at erols.com> wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> Speaking of lionfish, a recent article in Dive Training magazine
> mentioned lionfish being up to 1 m long (presumably 1 meter). Was this
> a misprint or has a fish this long actually been observed and measured??
>
> John
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