Antennarius scaber (Cuvier 1817)

Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, Zootaxa 3803 (1), pp. 1-120 : 29-30

* Antennarius scaber (Cuvier 1817) — Striated Frogfish Justification: FMNH 90998 (1); ZMUC P.9213 (1) and ZMUC P.9216–17 (2).

Distribution: Pietsch and Grobecker (1987), in part, WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA).

Remarks: Pietsch and Grobecker (1987) consider A. striatus (Shaw and Nodder) to be a broadly distributed species although the combination of a bifid esca and 11 or 12 pectoral-fin rays apparently distinguishes western Atlantic specimens from other populations. Molecular data ( Arnold and Pietsch, 2012) also suggest that A. striatus , as currently recognized, may be a species complex. The oldest available name for the western Atlantic population is A. scaber .