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has very variegated colouration on its body, mostnly brownish or greyish, interspersed with irregular blotches which are a combination of any of blackish, reddish, yellowish brown or white. The underside of the head is white with brownish or reddish blotches. The spiny part of the
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is also strongly variegated, although it has no distinct black blotches in either sex. The soft-rayed part of the dorsal fin is translucent white and has four ill-defined dark blotches. The lower part of the
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has 3 spines and 5 soft rays. The pectoral fin has 16–18, typically 17 soft rays and the caudal fin has 11–12 branched rays. This species attains a maximum
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is found in the Indian Ocean from the Red Sea, the coast of East Africa off Kenya and
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245:Sebastapistes bynoensis
237:Parascorpaena bynoensis
901:Fish described in 1838
560:"Species in the genus
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482:"Parascorpaena aurita"
556:Eschmeyer, William N.
404:Northern scorpionfish
699:Parascorpaena_aurita
670:Parascorpaena aurita
632:Parascorpaena aurita
534:Parascorpaena aurita
458:Parascorpaena aurita
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366:Parascorpaena aurita
317:Parascorpaena aurita
278:Parascorpaena aurita
186:Parascorpaena aurita
25:Parascorpaena aurita
638:Fishes of Australia
628:Bray, D.J. (2016).
408:Parascorpaena picta
319:was first formally
283:golden scorpionfish
261:Scorpaena bellicosa
229:Scorpaena bynoensis
47:Conservation status
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253:Scorpaena stokesii
248:(Richardson, 1845)
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361:Description
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464:References
447:Tasman Sea
439:Queensland
388:caudal fin
380:pelvic fin
371:dorsal fin
329:naturalist
223:Richardson
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342:given as
338:with the
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162:Species:
100:Kingdom:
94:Eukaryota
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433:east to
393:anal fin
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312:Taxonomy
203:Synonyms
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104:Animalia
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445:in the
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