Species Scorpaenodes smithi Eschmeyer & Rao, 1972

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• Scorpaenodes smithi Eschmeyer, W.N. & Rama-Rao, K.V. 1972. Two new scorpionfishes (genus Scorpaenodes) from the Indo-West Pacific, with comments on Scorpaenodes muciparus (Alcock). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 39(5): 55-64 fig. 1 [59, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1929.6.12.6, off western Malaya, Andaman Islands, Andaman Sea [5°45'N, 98°20'E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1929.6.12.7-15; BMNH 1932.2.15.15-20; BMNH 1933.8.11.4, Arafura Sea [11°59'30"S, 126°38'E]; BMNH 1972.1.17.1-9; CAS 13616; NMS; USNM 206501; ZMUC P.7978-7983; ZMUC P.7991-7992; ZMUC P.79100-132; ZSI F.6254/2.

 

Introduction

Several years ago the CAAB voucher specimen was a misidentified Neomerinthe amplisquamiceps and some early records of Scorpaenodes smithi may have been based on that species. There are numerous other records of S. smithi including a paratype of the species from northern Australia.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

North West Shelf, WA and Arafura Sea, NT

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf.

 

General References

Allen, G.R., N J. Cross, D.J. Bray & D.F. Hoese. 2006. Scorpaenidae. p. 876 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. [888]

Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp.

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. [2306]

Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. [96]

 

Common Name References

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [35] (Little Scorpionfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	SCORPAENIFORMES	15-Apr-2015	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)