Scorpaenopsis oxycephalus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Scorpaenopsis
- Species
- Scorpaenopsis oxycephalus
- Scientific Name
- Scorpaenopsis oxycephalus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Scorpaenopsis oxycephalus
Scorpaenopsis oxycephalus, the tasseled scorpionfish, or small-scaled scorpionfish, is a species of venomous marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It has a wide distribution in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the largest species in its genus.
...Scorpaenopsis oxycephalus in languages:
- Chinese
- 尖頭擬鮋
- Czech
- paropušnice špičatohlavá
- Danish
- Frynset dragehovedfisk
- Dutch
- Platkopschorpioenvis
- English
- Tassled Scorpionfish
- English
- Smallscale scorpionfish
- English
- Tasselled Scorpionfish
- French
- Poisson-scorpion à houppes
- French
- Rascasse à filaments
- German
- Fransen-Drachenkopf
- Japanese
- オオウルマカサゴ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Scorpaenopsis altirostris
- Scorpaenopsis barbata
- Scorpaenopsis brevifrons
- Scorpaenopsis cacopsis
- Scorpaenopsis cirrosa
- Scorpaenopsis cotticeps
- Scorpaenopsis crenulata
- Scorpaenopsis diabolus
- Scorpaenopsis eschmeyeri
- Scorpaenopsis furneauxi
- Scorpaenopsis gibbosa
- Scorpaenopsis gilchristi
- Scorpaenopsis insperata
- Scorpaenopsis lactomaculata
- Scorpaenopsis longispina
- Scorpaenopsis macrochir
- Scorpaenopsis neglecta
- Scorpaenopsis obtusa
- Scorpaenopsis orientalis
- Scorpaenopsis oxycephalus
- Scorpaenopsis papuensis
- Scorpaenopsis pluralis
- Scorpaenopsis possi
- Scorpaenopsis pusilla
- Scorpaenopsis ramaraoi
- Scorpaenopsis rubrimarginata
- Scorpaenopsis venosa
- Scorpaenopsis vittapinna
























































































































































