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TABLE VII-continued
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Dietribution
S C O r p d W - c o n t i n d
S . myetea Jordan and Starks
S. neglecta Temminck and Schlegel
.
Scorpaenodee guamenaie (Quoy and
.
S.porcw! (L.) .
Gaimard) .
S. ecabra (Rmsey and Ogilby) .
Scorpnoprris cirrhoim (Thunberg)
.
S. gibboea (Bleeker) .
Sebaaticua marmoratw, (Cuvier and
Symmeja eroea Langsdorf.
.
S. M
a (L.)
Valenciennes)
.
S . trachynie Richardson .
S . V~*TUOOB(I Bloch and Schneider
.
Traohinidae
ennes) .
Trachinua araww! (Cuvier and ValenciT. draco (L.) .
T. radiatw! Cuvier and Valenciennes
T. vipera Cuvier and Valenciennes
Uranoewpua bicinctw! Schlegel .
U . duvali (Bottard) .
U . japonicw! (Houttuyn) .
U . ecaberL. .
.
Uranmopidae
Pacific coast of Mexico, Central
America
Japan
Warm seas
Red Sea to Philippine Islands,
Australia, Guam, south Pacific
Indo-Pacific
Red Sea, Natal to Society Islands,
Philippine Islands, Japan
Indo-Pacific, Polynesia, Philippine
Islands
Hong Kong to Japan
Japan
India, Indonesia, China, Philippine
Islands
Australia
Red Sea, Indian Ocean, IndoPacific, Micronesia, Philippine
Islands. Austdia
Mediterranean, Portugal
Mediterranean, Adriatic and Black
Seas, Atlantic coast North
Africa, North Sea to Norway
Mediterranean
Mediterranean to North Sea
East Indies to J a m and China
Mediterranean, Indo-Pacific
Malaya, Japan, China, Philippine
ISlands
South Africa to Indo-Pacific,
Philippine
Islands,
Japan,
Australia
Table VII shows some of the more common venomous fishes, or
those fishes whose venom apparatus or venom has been studied to some
extent. A number of other marine fishes are thought to be venomous
but supportive morphological or toxicological data for most of these
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