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The cabezon (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus) is a large species of sculpin native to the Pacific coast of North America.Although the genus name translates literally as "scorpion fish", true scorpionfish (such as lionfish) belong to the related family Scorpaenidae.
The Scorpaenidae (also known as scorpionfish) are a family of mostly marine fish that includes many of the world's most venomous species. As their name suggests, scorpionfish have a type of "sting" in the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus. The family is a large one, with hundreds of members.
The blackbelly rosefish is a bathydemersal scorpionfish, found in soft bottom areas of the continental shelf and upper slope. [2] They have been recorded at depths between 50 and 1,100 m (160 and 3,610 ft), but usually from 150 to 600 m (490 to 1,970 ft).
Scorpaena guttata is a species of fish in the scorpionfish family known by the common name California scorpionfish. It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean , where it can be found along the coast of California and Baja California .
Peruvian scorpionfish: southeast Pacific Scorpaena agassizii Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896: longfin scorpionfish: North Carolina, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America Scorpaena albifimbria Evermann & M. C. Marsh, 1900: coral scorpionfish: southern Florida, USA and the Bahamas to Curaçao and probably northern South America
Scorpaeninae is a subfamily of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Scorpaeniformes, it includes the scorpionfishes, the lionfishes and turkeyfishes.
The mote sculpin (Normanichthys crockeri), also known as the barehead scorpionfish, is a ray-finned fish, the only member of the monotypic genus Normanichthys, family Normanichthyidae and suborder Normanichthyiodei. Common names for the species in Spanish include camotillo (in Peru) and bacaladillo (in Chile). [1]
The Pacific spotted scorpionfish has a very bony head which is armed with a large number of spines and had a deep occipital pit and a smaller pit to the front of the eyes. [4] The head's depth equals its width and there is an extremely large mouth. [7] The suborbital ridge has 3 or 4 spines, There are teeth on the sides of the roof of the mouth.