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Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) 
AphiaID: 218077

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Scorpaenidae (Family) > Pterois (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pterois Oken, 1817
Synonymised
taxa
  Pterois muricata Cuvier, 1829
Scorpaena miles Bennett, 1828
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English devil firefish  [details]
Hebrew זהרון  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Cargados Carajos [details]
Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
Reunion [details]
Rodriguez [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
Host of  Caligus russellii Kurien, 1950 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Taeniacanthus miles (Pillai, 1963) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Parataeniacanthus miles Pillai, 1963 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (88 nucleotides; 44 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218077
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
2008-04-07 06:51:33Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2009-06-16 07:05:49Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828). 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=218077 on 2013-05-21
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