Animalia > Chordata > Scorpaeniformes > Scorpaenidae > Scorpaena > Scorpaena scrofa

Scorpaena scrofa (Bigscale scorpionfish; Large-scaled scorpion fish; Largescaled scorpionfish; Orange scorpionfish; Red scorpionfish; Red scorpion-fish; Scorpionfish; Whiskery scorpionfish)

Synonyms: Scorpaena lutea; Scorpaena natalensis; Scorpaenopsis natalensis; Sebastapistes scorfa
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Wikipedia Abstract

Scorpaena scrofa, common name the red scorpionfish, Bigscale scorpionfish, or large-scaled scorpion fish is a venomous marine species of fish in the family Scorpaenidae, the "scorpionfish".
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Italian Peninsula & Islands France, Italy, Malta, Monaco Palearctic Temperate Coastal Rivers    

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Merlangius merlangus (Whiting)1
Merluccius merluccius (Herring hake)1
Octopus vulgaris (common octopus)1
Raja clavata (Roker)1
Zeus faber (European john dory)1

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1TROPHIC HABITS OF RED SCORPIONFISH SCORPAENA SCROFA (OSTEICHTHYES, SCORPAENIFORMES) IN THE CENTRAL WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN, Serenella Cabiddu, Claudia Pedoni, Paola Pesci and Cristina Porcu, Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., 39, 2010, p. 464
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0