Genus Trachyscorpia Ginsburg, 1953

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Trachyscorpia Ginsburg, I. 1953. Western Atlantic scorpionfishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 121(8): 1-103 [23, 57].

  Type species:

   Scorpaena cristulata Goode & Bean, 1896 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Lord Howe Province (14), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

General References

Allen, G.R., Hoese, D.F., Cross, N.J. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Sebastidae. pp. 866-868 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [867]

Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [493]

Johnson, J.W. & Motomura, H. 2008. Family Tetrarogidae. pp. 498-501 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [498]

Mandrytsa, S.A. 2001. Lateral Line System and Classification of Scorpaenoid Fishes (Scorpeaniformes: Scorpaenidei). Perm : Perm State Univ. Press pp. 1-393. [256]

McCosker, J.E. 2008. Trachyscorpia osheri and Idiastion hageyi, two new species of deepwater scorpionfishes (Scorpaeniformes: Sebastidae, Scorpaenidae) from the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 59(3): 113-123 [118]

Motomura, H., Last, P.R. & Yearsley, G.K. 2007. Two new species of the scorpionfish genus Trachyscorpia (Sebastidae: Sebastolobinae) from the southern Indo-West Pacific, with comments on the distribution of T. eschmeyeri. Zootaxa 1466: 19-34

Poss, S.G. 1999. Families Scorpaenidae, Caracanthidae, Aploactinidae. pp. 2291-2358 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 4 pp. 2069-2790. [2298]

Washington, B.B., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Howe, K.M. 1984. Scorpaeniformes: relationships. pp. 438-447 figs 240-241 in Moser, H.G. et al. (eds). Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Special Publication 1: 1-760 [440]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-May-2015	SCORPAENIFORMES	16-Mar-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED