Weedy stingfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Scorpaenidae |
Genus: | Scorpaenopsis |
Species: | S. cirrosa
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Binomial name | |
Scorpaenopsis cirrosa (Thunberg, 1793)
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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]
This species reaches a length of 23.1 cm (9.1 in). [3]