The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list
Author
Wirtz, Peter
Author
Fricke, Ronald
Author
Biscoito, Manuel José
text
Zootaxa
2008
1715
1
26
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274128
29ee5190-56be-4f31-8810-fcd4070a5c4e
1175-5326
274128
Scorpaenidae
While a common coastal fish in other areas,
Scorpaena notata
Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810
is found only deeper than
100 m
at Madeira and therefore not counted as a coastal species here.
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Scorpaena canariensis
(Sauvage, 1878)
—Canary Islands rockfish
Recorded from Madeira by
Brito (1991)
. A previous record of
Scorpaena laevis
Troschel, 1866
(on the basis of BMNH 1984.3.6.551-556) was re-identified as
S. canariensis
. Thus, there is no reliable record of
S. laevis
from Madeira. The specimens of
S. canariensis
in the collection of the MMF come from
100 m
and deeper. However, there are shallow water records of this species both at the Canary Islands and at the Azores; we therefore tentatively here list
S. canariensis
as a coastal species.
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Scorpaena maderensis
Valenciennes, 1833
—Madeira rockfish
Scorpaena porcus
Linnaeus, 1758
—Black scorpionfish
This record needs confirmation.
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Scorpaena scrofa
Linnaeus, 1758
—Largescaled scorpionfish