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Reef Scorpionfish

Scorpaenodes caribbaeus

Classification

Scorpaenodes is a widespread genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. The fishes in this genus are found to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Scorpaenodes was first formally described as a genus in 1857 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker designated Scorpaena polylepsis as its type species by monotypy.

Distribution

Jeffrey T. Williams · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 19Netherlands · 13United States of America · 7Brazil · 4United Kingdom · 2Mexico · 1