Scorpaenopsis rosea (Day, 1867)

Golani, Daniel & Bogorodsky, Sergey V., 2010, 2463, Zootaxa 2463, pp. 1-135 : 65

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1175­5334

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scientific name

Scorpaenopsis rosea (Day, 1867)
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Saunders (1960) recorded this Indo-Pacific species from the Red Sea based on a misidentification. This species is a junior synonym of Scorpaenopsis venosa (Cuvier, 1829) which does not occur in the Red Sea ( Randall & Eschmeyer, 2001)

Randall, J. E. & Eschmeyer, W. N. (2001) Revision of the Indo-Pacific scorpionfish genus Scorpaenopsis, with descriptions of eight new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes, 34, 1 - 79.

Saunders, D. C. (1960) A survey of the blood parasites in the fish of the Red Sea. Transactions of the American microscopic Society 79, 239 - 252.