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Fish Identification: Find Species

Class: Teleostei
Order: Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei
Family: Scorpaenidae Scorpionfishes or rockfishes
Subfamily: Pteroinae
Genus: Pteropterus

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7 species

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Photo by Randall, J.E.

Indo-Pacific
Max. Length 20 cm TL
Pteropterus antennatus (Bloch, 1787)
Photo by Randall, J.E.
 
Pteropterus antennatus
[Broadbarred firefish]
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Max. Length 14.7 cm SL
 
Pteropterus brevipectoralis
Photo by Bogorodsky, S.V.

Western Indian Ocean
Max. Length 15.9 cm SL
Pteropterus cinctus (Rüppell, 1838)
Photo by Bogorodsky, S.V.
 
Pteropterus cinctus
[Red sea lionfish]
Photo by Goebbels, D.

Indo-West Pacific
Max. Length 20 cm SL
Pteropterus mombasae Smith, 1957
Photo by Goebbels, D.
 
Pteropterus mombasae
[Frillfin turkeyfish]
Photo by Greenfield, J.

Indo-West Pacific
Max. Length 14.4 cm SL
Pteropterus paucispinula (Matsunuma & Motomura, 2014)
Photo by Greenfield, J.
 
Pteropterus paucispinula
Photo by Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy/B. Alenda

Indo-Pacific
Max. Length 24 cm TL
Pteropterus radiatus (Cuvier, 1829)
Photo by Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy/B. Alenda
 
Pteropterus radiatus
[Radial firefish]
Photo by Randall, J.E.

Eastern Central Pacific
Max. Length 22 cm TL
Pteropterus sphex (Jordan & Evermann, 1903)
Photo by Randall, J.E.
 
Pteropterus sphex
[Hawaiian turkeyfish]


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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Pteropterus antennatus Broadbarred firefish Indo-Pacific 20 TL 1787
Pteropterus brevipectoralis West Indian Ocean 14.7 SL 2002
Pteropterus cinctus Red sea lionfish Western Indian Ocean 15.9 SL 1838
Pteropterus mombasae Frillfin turkeyfish Indo-West Pacific 20 SL 1957
Pteropterus paucispinula Indo-West Pacific 14.4 SL 2014
Pteropterus radiatus Radial firefish Indo-Pacific 24 TL 1829
Pteropterus sphex Hawaiian turkeyfish Eastern Central Pacific 22 TL 1903



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