Genus Scorpaenopsis Heckel, 1837

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• Scorpaenopsis Heckel, J.J. 1837. Ichthyologische Beiträge zu den Familien der Cottoiden, Scorpaenoiden, Gobioiden und Cyprinoiden. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 2(1): 143-164 pls 8-9 [date handwritten on UZM reprint] [159].

  Type species:

   Scorpaena nesogallica Cuvier, 1829 (Bleeker, 1876, designated Scorpaena gibbosa Bloch & Schneider 1801, which was not an included species, as type (p.4) but treated nesogallica Cuvier 1829 and gibbosa as synonyms (p.28)) by subsequent designation, see Bleeker, P. 1876. Genera familiae Scorpaenoideorum conspectus analyticus. Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Afdeeling Natuurjunde). Amsterdam 2 9: 294-300 (Scorpaena nesogallica is a synonym of Scorpaenopsis gibbosa.).

 

Introduction

The genus was revised by Randall & Eschmeyer (2001), with additional information provided by Motomura (2004) and Motomora & Shinohara (2005). Some specimens previously had been misidentified and some distribution records included here may be inaccurate.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

SCORPAENIDAE: Scorpaenopsis cirrosa (Thunberg, 1793) [restricted to north-west Pacific; Australian records based on misidentification of other species] — Randall, J.E. & Eschmeyer, W.N. 2001. Revision of the Indo-Pacific scorpionfish genus Scorpaenopsis, with descriptions of eight new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes 34: 1-79 [Date published 2002] [17] (restricted to north-west Pacific, Australian records based on misidentification of other species)

SCORPAENIDAE: Scorpaenopsis gibbosa Bloch & Schneider, 1801 [restricted to western Indian Ocean; Australian records based on other species, possibly S. macrochir or S. neglecta; some Australian Museum records are based on S. diabolus] — Randall, J.E. & Eschmeyer, W.N. 2001. Revision of the Indo-Pacific scorpionfish genus Scorpaenopsis, with descriptions of eight new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes 34: 1-79 [Date published 2002] [24] (restricted to western Indian Ocean, Australian records based on other species, possibly S. macrochir or S. neglecta, some AM records based on S. diabolus); Motomura, H. & Shinohara, G. 2005. Assessment of taxonomic characters of Scorpaenopsis obtusa and S. gibbosa (Scorpaenidae), with first records of S. obtusa from Japan and Australia and comments on the synonymy of S. gibbosa. Cybium 29(3): 295-301 [300]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Allen, G.R. Cross, N.J., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Scorpaeninae. pp. 881-892 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]

Mandrytsa, S.A. 2001. Lateral Line System and Classification of Scorpaenoid Fishes (Scorpeaniformes: Scorpaenidei). Perm : Perm State Univ. Press pp. 1-393. [252]

Motomura, H. 2004. Scorpaenopsis insperatus: new species of scorpionfish from Sydney, Harbour, New South Wales, Australia (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae. Copeia 2004(3): 546-550 [546]

Motomura, H. & Shinohara, G. 2005. Assessment of taxonomic characters of Scorpaenopsis obtusa and S. gibbosa (Scorpaenidae), with first records of S. obtusa from Japan and Australia and comments on the synonymy of S. gibbosa. Cybium 29(3): 295-301

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [450]

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. [2303]

Randall, J.E. & Eschmeyer, W.N. 2001. Revision of the Indo-Pacific scorpionfish genus Scorpaenopsis, with descriptions of eight new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes 34: 1-79 [Date published 2002] [5]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
14-Dec-2022	SCORPAENIFORMES	14-Dec-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (ABRS)
23-Feb-2016	Scorpaeninae	28-Jul-2022	MODIFIED
06-May-2015	SCORPAENIFORMES	14-Dec-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		14-Dec-2022	MODIFIED