Atlantic thornyhead
Trachyscorpia cristulata (Goode & Bean, 1896)
Also calledkypäräkorusimppu (fin) · okouník trnitý (ces)
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description
Early life stages of deep-water members of Idiastion kyphos Eschmeyer, 1965, Neomerinthe spp., Phenacoscorpius nebris Eschmeyer, 1965 (Scorpaeninae), Setarches guentheri Johnson, 1862 (Setarchinae), and Trachyscorpia cristulata (Goode & Bean, 1896) (Sebastolobinae), included in Sebastinae by Hardy (2005), have not been described, to our knowledge. While a visiting scientist at the Smithsonian Institution (NMNH), the senior author examined the smallest available specimen of T. cristulata (32.0 mm SL; USNM 72979; collected 14 February 1902 off Key West, Florida) and P. nebris (40.0 mm SL; USNM 422671; collected 24 May 2013 off Curacao); small juveniles of the other aforementioned taxa were not available in NMNH collections for examination. Our intent was to generate a suite of characteristics to enable recognition and discrimination of late postflexion and transforming larvae of T. cristulata and P. nebris from other scorpaenids in the WNA. Trachyscorpia cristulata with cranial spines strongly developed. Elevated parietal ridge terminates in longer nuchal than parietal spines; parietals behind nuchals. Opercle with pair of ridges or struts, upper ridge directed dorsoposteriorly, lowe
The lionfishes: Comparative development of Pterois volitans, Dendrochirus barberi, and D. hemprichi (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae) and discrimination of their early life stages from non-pteroine scorpaenid genera in the Western North Atlantic
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4286391.