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Scorpaena afuerae Hildebrand, 1946
PERUVIAN SCORPIONFISH
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Scorpaena afuerae
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Scorpaena afuerae

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Overview
Main identification features
  • deep pits before and behind eye
  • scarlet + red blotches;all fins: red bars
  • body: no skin flaps
Head large, depressed, spiny; deep depression before and behind eye; ridge below eye with 3-4 spines; preopercle 5 spines, top one largest, row of fringed flaps along margin; row of 3 spines behind eye, and 2 at upper edge of opercle; skin flaps above front of top jaw, none on lower jaw, none in body; teeth on sides and front of roof of mouth; 15-16 spines on first gill arch; dorsal XII, 9-10; pectoral 19-21 rays, upper rays branched; anal III,5; scales smooth, 24 on lateral line.

Body, head and fins scarlet to orange brown with red mottling; irregular red barring on fins.

Size: 37 cm.

Habitat: rocky and rubble bottoms.

Depth: 35-80 m.

Costa Rica to Peru, Cocos Island.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo); South Temperate (Peruvian Province ).
Depth Range Max: 80 m.
Depth Range Min: 35 m.
Diet: octopus/squid/cuttlefish; bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=10; Southern limit=-9; Western limit=-88; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=19; Longitudinal range=10.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: TEP non-endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Sand & gravel; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef and soft bottom.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 37 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily; Continent + Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Peruvian province, primarily; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741.
  • Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen III. Vertebrados - Parte 2., FAO3:1201-1813.
  • Hildebrand, S.F., 1946., A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 189:1-530.
  • Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.

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