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Guam Scorpionfish

Scorpaenodes guamensis

Classification

Scorpaenodes guamensis, the Guam scorpionfish or common scorpionfish, is a species of venomous, marine, ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. Taxonomy Scorpaenodes guamensis was first formally described in 1824 as Scorpaena guamensis by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard with the type locality given as Guam.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 14United States of America · 2