Species: Scorpaena afuerae, Peruvian scorpionfish
all fins: red bars
Scorpaena afuerae Hildebrand, 1946
Peruvian scorpionfish
Head large, depressed, spiny; deep depressions before & behind eyes; longitudinal ridge below eye with 3-4 spines; teeth on sides and center of roof of mouth; preopercle 5 spines, top one largest, one below that well developed, row of fringed flaps along margin; row of 3 spines behind eye, and 2 at upper edge of opercle; skin flaps above front of top jaw, none on lower jaw, none in body; 15-16 gill rakers; dorsal XII, 9-10; pectoral 19-21 rays, upper rays branched, lower rays unbranched, thickened; anal III, 5; scales smooth, 24 on lateral line, 49-51 vertical rows.
Body, head and fins scarlet to orange brown with red mottling & spotting; irregular red barring on fins; spiny dorsal all red.
Size: 37 cm.
Habitat: rocky and rubble bottoms.
Depth: 35-100 m.
The tip of Baja California to to Peru, Cocos Island.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef and soft bottom
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 37
- Depth Range Min
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- 35
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
