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Grey stingfish — Photo: Sir Francis Day / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain (view on Wikimedia Commons)Historical illustration. Source: Fauna of British India (Fishes, Volumes 1 and 2) via www.archive.org; Commons file: MinousMonodactylus.png

Grey stingfish

Minous monodactylus

Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).

English: Grey stingfish
Scientific: Minous monodactylus
Dhivehi: No recorded Dhivehi name

Group: Reef fish
Family: Synanceiidae (stonefishes)
Maximum size: Up to about 15 cm (total length); max. published weight 330 g
Depth and habitat: On or near the bottom, recorded from 10 to 55 m
IUCN status: LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2017

Description

A small grey stingfish with venomous spines and a single free lower pectoral ray, reaching about 15 cm. It lives on soft bottoms.

Sources

fishbase.se /summary/Minous-monodactylus.html
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:MinousMonodactylus.png

Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.