Pterois miles (Bennett 1828)

Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, Zootaxa 4775 (1), pp. 1-157 : 145

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C3E5AF7F-1C84-450E-B228-BD78D0084071

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4346659

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6E2F87D6-FF12-FF41-FF2E-FDBAFB0CF8B0

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pterois miles (Bennett 1828)
status

 

Pterois miles (Bennett 1828) View in CoL —Devil firefish

Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Pterois miles (Bennett 1828) View in CoL by Bariche et al. (2013a); as Pterois miles View in CoL by Bariche et al. (2015: 2366); as Pterois miles View in CoL by Crocetta & Bariche in Dailianis et al. (2016: 621–623); and Bariche et al. (2017) and Aguillar et al. (2018: 82). Material in collection: AUBM.

Distribution. Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East and South Africa, Sokotra, Madagascar, Mascarenes and Persian Gulf east to Indonesia; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant); invasive in the Western Atlantic.

Conservation. IUCN: Global ( LC: 20 June 2017). Capture and threats: Unknown. Occurrence: Very common. Significant increase in the last two decades. Non-indigenous species, no conservation action needed .

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