08/03/2020
Red Lionfish Pterois volitans and Nembrotha chamberlaini nudi are so common on Napantao North wall. Depth 15 m.
Video credit: Darlene A. Mcguire
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Location: Napantao North Wall, Napantao, San Francisco (Panaon Island - Sogod Bay), Southern Leyte, Phil.
Red Lionfish Pterois volitans
CITATION
Motomura, H. & Matsuura, K. 2016. Pterois volitans . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T190468A78940195. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T190468A78940195.en. Downloaded on 16 February 2020.
IUCN RED LIST CATEGORY AND CRITERIA: Least Concern
ver 3.1: ASSESSMENT LANGUAGE: English
DATE ASSESSED: 03 March 2015
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2016
Assessment Information in detail: Geographic Range
NATIVE: Extant (resident)
American Samoa; Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Cook Islands; Disputed Territory (Spratly Is., Paracel Is.); Fiji; French Polynesia; Guam; Indonesia; Japan; Kiribati (Phoenix Is., Kiribati Line Is., Gilbert Is.); Korea, Republic of; Malaysia; Marshall Islands; Micronesia, Federated States of ; Nauru; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Niue; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Pitcairn; Samoa; Singapore; Solomon Islands; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Tokelau; Tonga; Tuvalu; United States Minor Outlying Islands (US Line Is., Howland-Baker Is.); Vanuatu; Viet Nam; Wallis and Futuna
NUMBER OF LOCATIONS
UPPER DEPTH LIMIT: 1 metres
LOWER DEPTH LIMIT: 50 metres
Read more: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/190468/78940195 -actions
DEFINITIVE SOURCE OF SPECIES' CORRECT "SCI" NAME: WORMS
WoRMS taxon details
Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID
159559 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159559)
Classification
Biota Animalia (Kingdom) Chordata (Phylum) Vertebrata (Subphylum) Gnathostomata (Superclass) Pisces (Superclass) Actinopterygii (Class) Scorpaeniformes (Order) Scorpaenoidei (Suborder) Scorpaenidae (Family) Pteroinae (Subfamily) Pterois (Genus) Pterois volitans (Species)
Status
accepted
Rank
Species
Typetaxon of
Pterois Oken, 1817
Parent
Pterois Oken, 1817
Orig. name
Gasterosteus volitans Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised names
Gasterosteus volitans Linnaeus, 1758
Environment
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Original description
(of Gasterosteus volitans Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cm characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors PDF available [request]
Descriptive notes
Description Inhabits lagoon and seaward reefs from turbid inshore areas to depths of over 50 m. Hides in unexposed places at daytime...
Distribution Indo-West Pacific; exotic established New York to Florida
Taxonomy introduced
Taxonomic citation
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2020). FishBase. Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159559 on 2020-02-16
Taxonomic edit history
Dateactionby
2005-05-30 09:27:08ZcreatedCuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08ZchangedBailly, Nicolas
2008-04-07 06:51:33ZchangedDecock, Wim
2009-06-09 07:13:02ZchangedBailly, Nicolas
Licensing
Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
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original description (of Gasterosteus volitans Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cm characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors PDF available [request]
context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. AFCD. , available online at http://www.hk-fish.net/eng/database/index.htm [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2019)., available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors PDF available [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Text Source: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159559
