Scorpaena
| Scorpaena Temporal range: [1]
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| Scorpaena onaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Scorpaenidae |
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| Genus: | Scorpaena Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Scorpaena porcus | |
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Scorpaena is a widespread genus of marine fish of the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes.[2][3]
Species[]
The 63 recognized species in this genus are:[4][5][6]
| Image | Scientific Name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| Scorpaena afuerae Hildebrand, 1946 | Peruvian scorpionfish | southeast Pacific | |
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Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 | longfin scorpionfish | North Carolina, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America |
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Evermann & , 1900 | coral scorpionfish | southern Florida, USA and the Bahamas to Curaçao and probably northern South America |
| Norman, 1935 | Angola rockfish | Mauritania to Angola, including Cape Verde | |
| Eschmeyer, 1969 | on rough bottom at Annobon Island | ||
| Eschmeyer, 1971 | Southeast Atlantic | ||
| Scorpaena azorica Eschmeyer, 1969 | Northeastern Atlantic region in European waters | ||
| Evermann & M. C. Marsh, 1900 | goosehead scorpionfish | Bermuda, New York to Florida (USA), Bahamas, and Mexico to northern South America | |
| Eschmeyer, 1965 | shortfin scorpionfish | southern Florida in USA and Panama to Venezuela | |
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Scorpaena brasiliensis G. Cuvier, 1829 | Barbfish | Virginia, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil |
| & , 2008 | Japanese shortspined scorpionfish | Japan | |
| Motomura, Last & , 2005 | bullhead scorpionfish | Norfolk Island and off Lord Howe Island, in the northern Tasman Sea. | |
| Goode & T. H. Bean, 1882 | smooth-head scorpionfish | Canada to North Carolina, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil | |
| (Sauvage, 1878 | Canary Islands and Madeira Island | ||
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Scorpaena cardinalis Solander & J. Richardson, 1842 | eastern red scorpionfish | northern New Zealand and offshore islands of the Tasman Sea |
| Scorpaena cocosensis Motomura, 2004 | Cocos Island and Galápagos | ||
| (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) | Hawaiian Islands | ||
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Longley & Hildebrand, 1940 | hunchback scorpionfish | Florida and northern Gulf of Mexico in USA to Brazil |
| Eschmeyer, 1965 | dwarf scorpionfish | Florida in USA and Antilles | |
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Cadenat, 1943 | slender rockfish | Mediterranean Sea and Morocco to off northern Namibia |
| Steindachner, 1875 | Desventuradas Is. and Juan Fernández Is. | ||
| Motomura, Last & Yearsley, 2006 | ghostly scorpionfish | Western Australia | |
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G. Cuvier, 1829 | plumed scorpionfish | Bermuda, Florida (USA), and Honduras to southern Brazil |
| J. D. Ogilby, 1910 | bigscale scorpionfish | Australia | |
| , 2006 | Grattan Bank, Ascension Island | ||
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Scorpaena guttata Girard, 1854 | California scorpionfish | Santa Cruz in central California, USA to Punta Abreojos, Baja California; including northern Gulf of California and Guadalupe Island in Mexico |
| Matsubara, 1943 | Hachijôjima, Japan | ||
| Fowler, 1938 | Philippines | ||
| Jenyns, 1840 | player scorpionfish | Mazatlán, Sonora, Mexico to Chile, from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and Galapagos Islands | |
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G. Cuvier, 1829 | mushroom scorpionfish | Florida (USA), Bahamas, and Yucatan (Mexico) to Curaçao |
| Meek & Hildebrand, 1928 | smooth-cheek scorpionfish | South Carolina, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil | |
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D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904 | Izu scorpionfish | Indo-West Pacific |
| Steindachner, 1866 | coastal water of eastern Australia, from southern Queensland to Victoria | ||
| J. E. Randall & , 2004 | Tahiti | ||
| Troschel, 1866 | Senegalese rockfish | Mauritania to Pointe Noire, Congo and including the Azores, and Cape Verde | |
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Cadenat, 1943 | Cadenat's rockfish | Morocco, Mauritania, Portugal, Atlantic coast of Spain, Cyprus and the Mediterranean |
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Scorpaena maderensis Valenciennes, 1833 | Madeira rockfish | Azores, Madeira, and Morocco to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde and Senegal |
| Eschmeyer, 1965 | Suriname and off Brazil | ||
| Günther, 1868 | Melliss's scorpionfish | St. Helena | |
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Günther, 1877 | Chiba Prefecture, Japan to Pusan, South Korea | |
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Scorpaena mystes D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1895 | California, USA to northern Chile, including the Galapagos Islands | |
| Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 | Indo-West Pacific | ||
| Cadenat, 1943 | Norman's rockfish | Mauritania to southern Angola | |
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Scorpaena notata Rafinesque, 1810 | small red scorpionfish | Bay of Biscay to Senegal, Madeira, Azores and the Canary Islands, including the Mediterranean and the Black Sea |
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Scorpaena onaria D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1900 | western scorpionfish | Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and New Caledonia |
| Eschmeyer & G. R. Allen, 1971 | bold scorpionfish | Easter Island | |
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Scorpaena papillosa (J. G. Schneider & J. R. Forster, 1801) | red rock cod | southern Australia and New Zealand |
| Eschmeyer & G. R. Allen, 1971 | Easter Island | ||
| Eschmeyer & J. E. Randall, 1975 | Hawaiian Islands | ||
| Motomura, & , 2007 | pumpkin scorpionfish | Taiwan | |
| Eschmeyer, 1965 | Brazil | ||
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Scorpaena plumieri Bloch, 1789 | spotted scorpionfish | Bermuda, Massachusetts, and northern Gulf of Mexico to southern Brazil Eastern Atlantic: Ascension and St. Helena |
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Scorpaena porcus Linnaeus, 1758 | black scorpionfish | British Isles to the Azores, and the Canary Islands, including Morocco, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea |
| D. S. Jordan & Bollman, 1890 | reddish scorpionfish | Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico to Peru | |
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Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 | Red scorpionfish | Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean; Atlantic range from British Isles (rare) to Senegal including Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde |
| O. P. Jenkins & Evermann, 1889 | Sonora scorpionfish | Mexico | |
| Cadenat, 1943 | spotted-fin rockfish | Mauritania to Angola | |
| Scorpaena sumptuosa Castelnau, 1875 | western red scorpionfish | southwestern Australia | |
| Günther, 1880 | Desventuradas Is. and Juan Fernández Is. | ||
| Hildebrand, 1946 | Chile | ||
| F. de Buen, 1961 | Chile | ||
| Wibowo & Motomura, 2020 | southwestern Australia | ||
| , 2013[5] | Cove on Isla Isabela in the Galápagos |
References[]
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560.
- ^ Scorpaena Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 January 2019.
- ^ "Scorpaena". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Scorpaena in FishBase. August 2013 version.
- ^ a b Victor, B.C. (2013): Scorpaena wellingtoni n. sp., a new scorpionfish from the Galápagos Islands (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 8: 30-43.
- ^ Wibowo, Kunto; Motomura, Hiroyuki (2020-09-18). "Review of the Scorpaena papillosa species complex (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) with description of a new species from southwestern Australia". Zootaxa. 4852 (5): 527–546. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4852.5.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
External links[]
- Smith, J.L.B. 1957. The fishes of the Family Scorpaenidae; Part 1: The sub-family Scorpaeninae. Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 4. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
- Smith, J.L.B. 1957. The fishes of the Family Scorpaenidae; Part 2: The sub-families Pteroinae, Apistinae, Setarchinae and Sebastinae. Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 5. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
- Smith, J.L.B. 1958. Fishes of the families Tetraogidae, Caracanthidae and Synanciidae from the Western Indian Ocean with further notes on Scorpaenid fishes. Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 12. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Categories:
- Scorpaena
- Scorpaenidae
- Venomous fish
- Extant Eocene first appearances
- Marine fish genera
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus