Gallagher, Scott A (2 december 2008). ”Lionfish and Stonefish” (på engelska). emedicine. Medscape. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/770764-overview. Läst 26 maj 2010. ”Whatever the actual mortality rate is following a stonefish envenomation, the number of confirmed human deaths is much fewer than commonly believed. Nonetheless, severe and incapacitating local and systemic effects are well described.”