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Lionfish Pterois volitans is protected in the marine waters.

Lord Howe Island Group, Australia 2008

Thus of the closely allied _C. volitans_, Swinhoe, the latter gentleman informs us that "the eggs of our bird vary from three to five, are thin and fragile, and of a pale clear greenish blue" [B].

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

I have no eggs of _C. cursitans_ which match them, in that species the spots being always minute and thickly scattered over the shell, whereas in _O. volitans_ the marks are large and fewer in number.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

I invite naturalists to examine whether other flying-fish, for instance the Exocoetus exiliens, the Trigla volitans, amid the T. hirundo, have as capacious an air-bladder as the flying-fish of the tropics.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

In the vast sea between the coast of Chili and the Low Islands or the dangerous Archipelago, very few animals appear to live near the surface, at least we saw none; a quantity of flying-fish were seen, resembling the _Exocoetus volitans_, but having the rays of the breast-fins parted towards the end.

A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816

Off the Cape de Verd Islands, in addition to the _Exocoetus volitans_, which abounds there, various specimens of the much larger _Exocoetus exsiliens_ of Cuvier alighted on board our vessel.

A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816

Trigla volitans, amid the T. hirundo, have as capacious an air-bladder as the flying-fish of the tropics.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

From the twenty-second degree of latitude, we found the surface of the sea covered with flying-fish, * (* Exocoetus volitans.) which threw themselves up into the air, twelve, fifteen, or eighteen feet, and fell down on the deck.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Dum, Liber! astra petis volitans trepidantibus alis,

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Hixon MA (2008) Invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans reduce recruitment of Atlantic coral-reef fishes.

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