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Common names: Common scorpionfish, Guam scorpionfish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality of Centropogon echinatus (AMS I. 16353-001, 6.98 cm SL), Endeavour River, Queensland (Ref. 106975). Occurs in Queensland and New South Wales (Ref. 2334); including the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands (Ref. 75154). Northwest Shelf (Ref. 90102). Also Ref. 1602, 33390, 37816.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Johnson, J.W., 1999
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> Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfishes or rockfishes) > Scorpaeninae
Etymology: Scorpaenodes: Latin, scorpaena = a kind of fish, 1706 + Greek oides = similar to (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Quoy & Gaimard.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

marino associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 20 m (Ref. 106975), usually 0 - 5 m (Ref. 89972). Tropical; 35°N - 40°S

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Indo-Pacific: from the east coast of Africa and the Red Sea east to the Society Islands.

Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 14.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 9710)

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Spine dorsali (totale) : 13 - 14; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 7 - 9; Spine anali: 3; Raggi anali molli: 5. Thie species is distinguished by the following set of characters: pectoral-fin rays 17-20 (mode 18), some rays branched in specimens over ca. 40 mm SL; dorsal-fin soft rays 7-9 (8); scale rows in longitudinal series 40-46 (43); underside of lower jaw scaleless; gill rakers 11-15 (13); with nasal spine; lateral lacrimal spine is usually present; suborbital spines 2, first spine below eye, second spine at end of suborbital ridge; no interorbital and coronal spines; opercle with a large dark blotch; no dark blotch on subopercle or spinous portion of dorsal fin (Ref. 106975).

Found in rock crevices in reef flats, shallow lagoons, and channels. Feeds mainly at night on small shrimps, crabs, and polychaetes. Anterolateral glandular groove with venom gland (Ref. 57406). Solitary and cryptic (Ref 90102).

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Motomura, H., R. Causse and C.D. Struthers, 2015. Redescription of the Indo-Pacific scorpionfish Scorpaenodes guamensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) (Scorpaenidae), a senior synonym of seven nominal species. Zootaxa 4067(3):345-360. (Ref. 106975)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 04 March 2015

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Venomous (Ref. 2334)

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Pesca: di nessun interesse

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.3 - 29.3, mean 28.2 (based on 3057 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01413 (0.00918 - 0.02174), b=3.00 (2.88 - 3.12), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.50 se; based on food items.

Resilienza (Ref. 120179): Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Scorpaenodes guamensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)