SCORPAENIFORMES

Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, Zootaxa 2667, pp. 1-27 : 15

ORDER SCORPAENIFORMES

Family Sebastidae

* Helicolenus dactylopterus (Delaroche, 1809) — Blackbelly rosefish Trachyscorpia cristulata (Koehler, 1896) — Spiny scorpionfish

Family Scorpaenidae

Pontinus kuhlii (Bowdich, 1825)

Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 — Largescaled scorpionfish

Scorpaena porcus Linnaeus, 1758 — Black scorpionfish

* Scorpaena notata Rafinesque, 1810 — Small red scorpionfish

Scorpaena loppei Cadenat, 1943 — Cadenat's rockfish Occasional catches between 100–250 m depth in several “Demersales” surveys.

Family Triglidae

* Lepidotrigla cavillone (Lacepède, 1801) — Large-scaled gurnard

* Lepidotrigla dieuzeidei Blanc & Hureau, 1973 — Spiny gurnard Not mentioned for Galicia neither by Hureau in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón (2004).

* Trigla lyra Linnaeus, 1758 — Piper gurnard

* Chelidonichthys obscurus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) — Longfin gurnard

* Chelidonichthys lucernus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Tub gurnard

Chelidonichthys lastoviza (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Streaked gurnard

*Aspitrigla cuculus (Linnaeus, 1758) — East Atlantic red gurnard

* Eutrigla gurnardus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Grey gurnard

Family Peristediidae

* Peristedion cataphractum (Linnaeus, 1758) — African armoured searobin

Family Cottidae

* Taurulus bubalis (Euphrasen, 1786) — Longspined bullhead

Family Psychrolutidae

Cottunculus thomsonii (Günther, 1882) — Pallid sculpin

Family Cyclopteridae

* Cyclopterus lumpus Linnaeus, 1758 — Lumpsucker

A boreal species occasionally present in Galician waters ( Figure 9 ), mainly during the first semester of the year, when a migration to shallow waters for reproduction takes place ( Bañón et al., 2008a).

Family Liparidae

Liparis montagui (Donovan, 1804) — Montagu’s sea snail Paraliparis membranaceus Günther, 1887 — No common name Occasional catches between 500–700 m depth in several “Demersales” surveys.

Figures

FIGURE 9. Cyclopterus lumpus (photo R. Bañón).