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Cheekspot Scorpionfish

Scorpaenodes evides

Classification

Scorpaenodes evides, the cheekspot scorpionfish, little scorpionfish or shore scorpionfish, is a species of venomous marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. This species is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy Scorpaenodes evides was first formally described in 1914 as Thysanichthys evides by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson with the type locality given as Misaki in Japan.

Distribution

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