- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Spiny-rayed fishes
- ›Freshwater Sunfishes, Grunters, and Allies
- ›Grunters, Stripeys, and Allies
- ›Halfmoons
- ›Scorpis

Silver Sweep
Scorpis lineolata
The silver sweep, Scorpis lineolata, is a species of sea chub native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean from Australia to New Zealand. A very rare fish that is highly regarded in the aquarium industry for its silver colour with black bar patter on it , they can be found at high end aqaurium stores with a pristine patterend sweep have been known to be sold for upwards of a thousand dollars . Adults are found on...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Scorpis lineolata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 447407.