Scorpaenodes africanus Pfaff, 1933

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 295-296

Scorpaenodes africanus Pfaff, 1933

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 90 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: benthic

Depth range: 25-50 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: DD – Data deficient (2015)

Source: bibliography, observation

Distribution and remarks: East Atlantic: known from a disjunct distribution from Senegal and São Tome. Unconfirmed records indicate that it exists more or less continuously in between and as far south as northern Angola. Several human observations for Gabon.

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