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Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 127248

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Scorpaenidae (Family) > Scorpaeninae (Subfamily) > Scorpaena (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Scorpaena
Synonymised
taxa
  Scorpaena lutea Risso, 1810
Scorpaena natalensis Regan, 1906
Scorpaenopsis natalensis (Regan, 1906)
Sebastapistes scorfa (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100
page(s): 266 [details]


basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 266 [details]


context source (Deepsea): Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System , available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/collections-management [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian shkerpi i kuq  [details]
Dutch oranje schorpioenvis  [details]
Dutch rascasse  [details]
English largescaled scorpionfish  [details]
English red scorpionfish  [details]
English red scorpion-fish  [details]
French rascasse rouge  [details]
German roter Drachenkopf  [details]
Hebrew עקרבנון מדובלל  [details]
Italian scorfano rosso  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Σκορπίνα  [details]
Portuguese rocaz  [details]
Spanish cabracho  [details]
Swedish havssugga  [details]
Turkish iskorpit  [details]
Welsh pysgodyn dreiniog  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Scorpaena scrofa afimbria Slastenenko, 1935 accepted as Scorpaena notata Rafinesque, 1810
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Kenya [details]
Mozambique [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Strabax monstrosus von Nordmann, 1864 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeolophus sultanus (Milne Edwards, 1840) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (172 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 20 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Images 
Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758
Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-08-21 - author: RIVO/Henk Heessen/2005
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Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758
Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-08-21 - author: RIVO/Henk Heessen/2005
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Scorpaena scrofa
Scorpaena scrofa
added on 2008-12-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Scorpaena scrofa
Scorpaena scrofa
added on 2008-12-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127248
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127248 on 2013-05-24
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