“…The colonization process of the red lionfish, Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758), has been well documented along the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea (Chevalier et al 2008, González et al 2009, Morris and Akins 2009, Schofield 2009, 2010, Aguilar-Perera and Tuz-Sulub 2010, Lasso-Alcalá and Posada 2010, Ruttenberg et al 2012, Ferreira et al 2015, Sandel et al 2015. Although cytogenetic, molecular, behavioural, and ecological studies of this species have been made (Cure et al 2012, Nirchio et al 2014, Coronado-Carrascal et al 2015, García-Rodríguez et al 2015, the size ranges reported for this species have not been well documented. The maximum total length of red lionfish reported by Randall et al (1990) was 380 mm TL.…”