Scorpaenopsis diabolus
False Stonefish | Devil Scorpionfish | False Scorpionfish | Scorpaenopsis diabolis
Scorpaenopsis diabolus, Lorde Howe Is, NSW, Photo: Rick Stuart-Smith
Scorpaenopsis diabolus, adult, NSW, Australia, Photo: Ian Shaw
Scorpaenopsis diabolus, Photo: Rick Stuart-Smith
Scorpaenopsis diabolus, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Scorpaenopsis diabolus, Indonesia
Scorpaenopsis diabolus, adult, NSW, Australia, Photo: Ian Shaw
Similar Species
Distribution
Tropical Indo-Pacific
Description
Large, humped shoulder behind head. Colour variable, and body often covered with fine filaments giving a fuzzy or 'silty' appearance, but often with darker red-brown oblique band behind pectoral fin and hump.
Information
Max Size: 30 cm
Sea Temperature Range: 19.8-30.8°C
Depth: 1-70m
Habitat Generalization Index: N/A
Also referred to as the SGI (Species Generalisation Index), this describes the habitat niche breadth of the species. Species with values less than 15 are found in a relatively narrow range of reef habitat types (specialists), while those over 25 may be found on most hard substrates within their range (generalists). Learn more here.
Conservation and Rarity
IUCN Status: Not Evaluated
Occurrence: Infrequent (1.2% of sites)
Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution. It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed
Abundance: Solitary (1 per transect)
Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.
Edit by: RD Stuart-Smith, GJ Edgar, AJ Green, IV Shaw. 2015. Tropical Marine Fishes of Australia. Reed New Holland