Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Kyphosidae > Scorpis > Scorpis aequipinnis

Scorpis aequipinnis (Maomao; Sea sweep; Silver sweep; Snapjack; Sweep)

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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Wilson's Promontory National Park II 119279 Victoria, Australia

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Caesioperca lepidoptera (Red perch)4
Cetorhinus maximus (Sun-fish)2
Cyclothone obscura (Hidden bristlemouth)1
Pseudocaranx dentex (underjaw kingfish)2

Predators

Zeus faber (European john dory)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Neoheteraxinoides scorpis[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1B. C. Russell (1983): The food and feeding habits of rocky reef fish of north‐eastern New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 17:2, 121-145
♦ 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.
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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