WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Parascorpaena Bleeker, 1876

AphiaID

205678 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205678)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Scorpaeninae Risso, 1827

Synonymised names

Prascorpaena · unaccepted (misspelling)

Direct children (13)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Species Parascorpaena armata (Sauvage, 1873)
Species Parascorpaena aurita (Rüppell, 1838)
Species Parascorpaena bandanensis (Bleeker, 1851)
Species Parascorpaena maculipinnis Smith, 1957
Species Parascorpaena mcadamsi (Fowler, 1938)
Species Parascorpaena mossambica (Peters, 1855)
Species Parascorpaena moultoni (Whitley, 1961)
Species Parascorpaena picta (Cuvier, 1829)
Species Parascorpaena poseidon Chou & Liao, 2022
Species Parascorpaena bynoensis (Richardson, 1845) accepted as Parascorpaena aurita (Rüppell, 1838)
Species Parascorpaena macadamsi (Fowler, 1938) accepted as Parascorpaena mcadamsi (Fowler, 1938) (misspelling)
Species Parascorpaena mauritiana (Cuvier, 1829) accepted as Sebastapistes mauritiana (Cuvier, 1829)
Species Parascorpaena mcdamsi (Fowler, 1938) accepted as Parascorpaena mcadamsi (Fowler, 1938) (misspelling)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Parascorpaena Bleeker, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205678 on 2025-04-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-26 06:56:50Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2013-01-04 15:09:25Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree]

Nomenclature

basis of record Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Other

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]