Pterois miles

Pterois miles

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scorpaenoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Ordo: Scorpaeniformes Subordo: Scorpaenoidei

Familia: Scorpaenidae
Subfamilia: Pteroinae
Genus: Pterois
Species: P. miles

Name

Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828)

Type material: No types known. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:159 is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639. See Kochzius et al. 2003:401. See Hare & Whitfield 2004:2.

Type locality: South coast of Sri Lanka [eastern Indian Ocean].

References

Primary references

• Bennett, J.W. 1828–1830. A selection from the most remarkable and interesting fishes found on the coast of Ceylon. London. First Edition: i–viii 30 unnumbered pp., Pls. 1–30. BHL Reference page. 
• Fricke, R. 1999. Fishes of the Mascarene Islands (Réunion, Mauritius, Rodriguez). An annotated checklist with descriptions of new species. [Theses Zoologicae v. 31.] Koenigstein (Koeltz Scientific Books). i–viii 1–759. Reference page.  [see page 159]
• Fricke, R. 2000. Invalid neotypes. Editorial Notes and News. Copeia 2000(2): 639–640. JSTOR hdl: 1448/230 [not seen] Reference page.  [see page 639]
• Hare, J.A. & Whitfield, P.E. 2004. An integrated assessment of the introduction of lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles complex) to the Western Atlantic Ocean. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS No. 2 (for Dec. 2003): i–iv 1–21. Reference page. 
• Kochzius, M., Söller, R., Khalaf, M.A. & Bohm, D. 2003. Molecular phylogeny of the lionfish genera Dendrochirus and Pterois (Scorpeanidae, Pteroinae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28: 396–403. Reference page.  [see page 401]

Links

• Scorpaena miles in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on July 9, 2019.
• Pterois miles in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Pterois miles in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names

Afrikaans: Duiwel-vuurvis
العربية: Deesh
čeština: Perutýn žoldnéř
dansk: Indisk dragefisk
Deutsch: Rotfeuerfisch
English: Lionfish
eesti: India tiibkala
français: Rascasse volante commune
עברית: זהרון
Kreyòl ayisyen: Laffe volant
italiano: Pesce leone
polski: Skrzydlica wachlarzopletwa
português: Peixe-fogo diabo
ไทย: ปลาสิงโตธรรมดา
Türkçe: Şeytan aslan balığı
中文（臺灣）: 斑鰭簑鮋

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