Scorpion Fish

The California Scorpionfish, Scorpaena guttata, often lies motionless among rocks and on the bottom, waiting to ambush its prey. You can find scoripionfish all around the worlds oceans and many, like this one, have poison filled spines in their fins. You would not want to mistake one of these for a harmless Cabezon as one of my Cali friends did. 
This picture was taken at night and I remember the scorpion fish staring me down and posing perfectly, slightly raised up on its fanned out pectoral fins.