Assessment of taxonomic characters of Scorpaenopsis obtusa and S. gibbosa (Scorpaenidae), with first records of S. obtusa from Japan and Australia and comments on the synonymy of S. gibbosa

Cybium

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-301

  Motomura, Hiroyuki ^a   Shinohara, Gento ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Australia; First records; INW; ISEW; Japan; Redescriptions; Scorpaenidae; Scorpaenopsis gibbosa; Scorpaenopsis obtusa; Synonymy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749510193     PISSN: 03990974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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