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Species
Least Concernblack scorpionfish
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyScorpaenidae
Habitatmarine
Observations3,130
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Scorpaena
- Image
- Escórpora (Scorpaena notata), Monte da Guia, isla de Fayal, Azores, Portugal, 2020-07-26, DD 03.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Scorpaena porcus
- Commons category
- Scorpaena porcus
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon common name
- venenosu
- short name
- S. porcus
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Encyclopedic overview
The black scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus), also known as the European scorpionfish or small-scaled scorpionfish, is a venomous scorpionfish, common in marine subtropical waters. It is widespread in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from the British Isles to the Azores and Canary Islands, near the coasts of Morocco, and in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “black scorpionfish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.