Scorpaenopsis cirrosa

Scorpaenopsis cirrosa, the weedy stingfish, is a species of venomous marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It is found in the north-western Pacific Ocean from southern Japan and China south to Hong Kong and northern Taiwan.^[2]

Weedy stingfish
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scorpaeniformes
Family:	Scorpaenidae
Genus:	Scorpaenopsis
Species:	S. cirrosa
Binomial name
Scorpaenopsis cirrosa (Thunberg, 1793)
Synonyms
Perca cirrosa Thunberg, 1793 Dendroscorpaena cirrhosa (Thunberg, 1793) Scorpaena cirrhosa (Thunberg, 1793) Scorpaenopsis cirrhosa (Thunberg, 1793) Scorpaenopsis cirrhosus (Thunberg, 1793) Scorpaeopsis cirrhosa (Thunberg, 1793) Scorpaena leonina Richardson, 1846[1]

Description

This species reaches a length of 23.1 cm (9.1 in). ^[3]

References

1. Richardson, J. 1846 (June/July) [ref. 3742], Report on the ichthyology of the seas of China and Japan. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]: 187-320.
2. Randall, J.E and W.N. Eschmeyer, 2001. Revision of the Indo-Pacific scorpionfish genus Scopaenopsis, with descriptions of eight new species. Indo-Pac. Fish. (34):79 p.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Scorpaenopsis cirrosa". FishBase. February 2015 version.