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The Waspfishes or Sailback Scorpionfishes (Family Scorpaenidae, subfamily Tetraroginae) - English
URL: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/waspfishes.htm

Subfamily Tetraroginae: Eleven plus genera (Ablabys, Amblyapistus, Centropogon, Cottpistus, Neocentropogon, Notesthes, Ocosia, Parcentropogon, Tetraroge, Vespicula) of thirty five species. Very venomous. Mostly marine, with the Australian eastern coastal Notesthes robusta being able to be kept in hard, alkaline freshwater.

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Species Summary for Hypodytes rubripinnis - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Hypodytes&speciesna

Northwest Pacific: southern Japan. Also reported from the Philippines.

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Species Summary for Ocosia vespa - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Ocosia&speciesname=

Western North Pacific: Japan.

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Tetrarogidae - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=577

Distribution: Indo-west Pacific. Body compressed; head usually with ridges and spines; usually two divergent opercular spines; gill membrane free from isthmus. These fishes are extremely venemous.

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