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Julien Renoult, license: CC BY-NC 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Perciformes
Suborder:
Scorpaenoidei
Family:
Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:
Scorpaeninae
Genus:
Scorpaena
Species:
porcus
Common:
Black scorpionfish
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
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Regions:
Atlantic, Eastern Central
Atlantic, Northeast
Mediterranean and Black Sea
Bolgan, M., Soulard, J., Di Iorio, L., Gervaise, C., Lejeune, P., Gobert, S., Parmentier, E. 2019. Sea Chordophones Make the Mysterious /Kwa/ Sound: Identification of the Emitter of the Dominant Fish Sound in Mediterranean Seagrass Meadows. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(11).
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Hallacher, L. E. 1974. The Comparative Morphology of Extrinsic Gasbladder Musculature in the Scorpionfish Genus Sebastes (Pisces: Scorpaenidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, 40(3): 59-86.