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Scorpaena mystes Jordan & Starks 1895
Description
Scorpaena mystes Jordan & Starks, 1895.
Pacific Spotted Scorpionfish or Stone Scorpionfish. To 51 cm (20 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2015). Redondo Beach, southern California (Swift 1986) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Poss in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 100 m (328 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Scorpaena
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Starks
- Species
- mystes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scorpaena mystes Jordan, 1895 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Jordan, D. S. & Starks, E. C. (1895) The fishes of Puget Sound. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 5, 785 - 855.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Swift, C. C. (1986) First record of the spotted scorpionfish, Scorpaena plumieri, from California: the curtain falls on " a comedy of errors. " California Fish and Game, 72, 176 - 178.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.