[Coral-List] Tassled Scorpionfish Sighting in the Bahamas

[Charles Booth]

The FishBase.org entry for Scorpaenopsis  oxycephala does not mention it as
being in the Bahamas:
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5822.

Nor is it mentioned at the BREEF (Bahamas Reef Environment Education
Foundation) web page on invasive species (which is admittedly not very
thorough): http://www.breef.org/InvasiveSpecies/tabid/73/Default.aspx)

Very interesting!  It would not surprise me if this is another escapee (or
release) from an aquarium.

Chuck Booth


On 7/23/07 12:00 PM, "coral-list-request at coral.aoml.noaa.gov"
<coral-list-request at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Tassled Scorpianfish in Bahamas

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Eastern Connecticut State University
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