WoRMS taxon details
Scorpaena guttata Girard, 1854
274713 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274713)
accepted
Species
Scorpaena guadalupae Fowler, 1944 · unaccepted
Scorpaena microlepis Gunter, 1948 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Girard, C. F. (1854). Observations upon a collection of fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7: 142-156. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Scorpaena guttata Girard, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274713 on 2026-06-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Girard, C. F. (1854). Observations upon a collection of fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7: 142-156. [details]
original description (of Scorpaena guadalupae Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [details]
original description (of Scorpaena microlepis Gunter, 1948) Gunter, G. (1948). Notes on fishes of the genus Scorpaena from the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, with descriptions of two new species. <em>Copeia.</em> 1948 (no. 3): 157-166., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1438450 [details]
original description (of Scorpaena guadalupae Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [details]
original description (of Scorpaena microlepis Gunter, 1948) Gunter, G. (1948). Notes on fishes of the genus Scorpaena from the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, with descriptions of two new species. <em>Copeia.</em> 1948 (no. 3): 157-166., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1438450 [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Scorpaena microlepis Gunter, 1948)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (62 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scorpaena guttata)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena guadalupae Fowler, 1944)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena microlepis Gunter, 1948)
To FishBase
To FishSounds
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Scorpaena microlepis Gunter, 1948)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (62 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scorpaena guttata)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena guadalupae Fowler, 1944)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena microlepis Gunter, 1948)
To FishBase
To FishSounds
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
