Review of the Scorpaena papillosa species complex (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) with description of a new species from southwestern Australia
Author
Wibowo, Kunto
0000-0003-4465-3022
The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, 1 - 21 - 24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890 - 0065, Japan. kuntowe @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4465 - 3022 & Research Center for Oceanography, LIPI, Jl. Pasir Putih I, Ancol Timur, Jakarta 14430, Indonesia.
kuntowe@gmail.com
Author
Motomura, Hiroyuki
The Kagoshima University Museum, 1 - 20 - 31 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890 - 0065, Japan.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-18
4852
5
527
546
journal article
8451
10.11646/zootaxa.4852.5.2
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1175-5326
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The
Scorpaena papillosa
complex
Included species.
Scorpaena papillosa
(
S. papillosa papillosa
and
S. papillosa ergastulorum
) and
Scorpaena vesperalis
n. sp.
Diagnosis.
A species complex distinguished from other Indo-Pacific species of
Scorpaena
by the following unique characters: dorsal fin with 10 soft rays, coronal spines present, and two upwardly directed spines (anterodorsal and lateral lacrimal spines) on lacrimal bone present (
Fig. 1
).