belongs to the family of the scorpion, Escorpeniformes order. It is also known by the name of red rockfish, sea devil kabrarroka or because of their strange looks and striking red. Of the same family as the rockfish or scorpionfish scorpionfish cabrilla.El usually remains quiet and hidden on the seabed between 20 and 200 meters deep, and can be located either alone or in groups. Young specimens are closer to the sea as adults. The scorpionfish is typical of northeastern Atlantic waters from the British Isles to Senegal, and also abounds on the shores of the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Species Scorpaena scrofa (commonly called "Scorpion Fish"): It can reach 50cm in length and reddish, pink or something brown, with darker blotches and lighter. Ctenoid body covered with scales large, almost as wide as long, presenting a 45 in his sideline. Bulky head with well-developed dermal appendages and abundant thorns.
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Porcus (commonly called "Rockfish"): It can reach up to 30 cm in length and brown coloration is more or less clear, with dark and light spots that can lead to transverse bands on the sides and median fins. Ctenoid body covered in scales small, showing 65 to 70 lateral line scales.
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loppei: It can reach up to 10 cm in length and coloration is reddish-pink with many dark and light spots, dark spot highlighting the spiny portion of dorsal fin. Ctenoid body covered with scales, showing 30 to 40 lateral line scales. Head not too voluminous, with well-developed dermal appendages and abundant thorns.
Its weight can reach nearly 3 kg but are rare examples of more than 1.5-2 kg. Usually found at depths from 10 to 500 m in rocky or sandy funds vegetation where it can be seen partially buried, but you can find a little water, and is a species that according to that area is very popular in contrast gastronomicamante in others where it is valued.
When threatened, the fish up the dorsal fin and the gill cover, coated with poisonous spines. However, the defense is passive, never attacks in these cases, just run away. As their camouflage is virtually perfect, it's easy not to see them while diving near them.
Be careful with your hands, because we can put on a scorpion fish without realizing it and get a painful wound, with an ardent and persistent pain and considerable swelling but no serious consequences. The spines are poisonous even when the fish is dead.
Pitting
local treatment of the bite will consist of cleaning and disinfection of the area as if it were a wound. Another action that we can implement is to immerse the injured area in hot water at high temperature that the affected are able to tolerate, since the nature of these fish inoculated venom is protein, which will cause a distortion of the proteins by heat and thus inactivation of the venom.
Although in most cases you will not need to take more aggressive action, those affected will be sent to a hospital for treatment with corticosteroids to prevent inflammatory responses that may occur and if necessary local anesthetic infiltration (lidocaine type) to refer pain.
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