#2211 · 🐟 fish

Madeira Scorpionfish

🇳🇱 Madeira roodbaars ·Scorpaena maderensis

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Xavier Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © João Encarnação · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Aeroporto de Ponta Delgada, Ponta Delgada, Açores, PT:© myphotoprint · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece:© Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. Epirus, Epirus and Western Macedonia, Greece:© Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Madeira rockfish ( Scorpaena maderensis ) is a species of rockfish found in the eastern central Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean in waters between 20 and 40 metres deep. 5 in) SL. The species was described by Achille Valenciennes in 1833 and first described it in the Madeira Islands.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,212iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,212 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Achille Valenciennes in 1833 (193 years ago).