Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758

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

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Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758
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This Atlanto-Mediterranean species does not occur in the Red Sea. Frøiland (1972) reported this species based on a misidentification of a single specimen probably of Scorpaenopsis sp. from Elat.

Froiland, O. (1972) The scorpaenids of the Red Sea (Pisces: Scorpaenidae), a taxonomical and zoogeographical study. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Bergen, 160 pp.