Sebastapistes mauritiana (Cuvier, 1829)

Sebastapistes mauritiana (Cuvier, 1829) View in CoL ( Fig. 5 View Fig )

Remarks: The species is newly recorded from Taiwanese waters based on a specimen in the current study. The counts of dorsal, pectoral, and anal fins are provided in table 3. This species differs from congeners of Sebastapistes by having a strong coronal ridge with a spine ( Fig. 4b View Fig ).

Motomura et al. (2014) have synonymized Scorpaena hatizyoensis with S. mauritiana . There is one specimen of S. hatizyoensis (NTMP0678) collected from Taiwan in 1945 which is supposed to be S. mauritiana . However, we re-identified this specimen as a misidentification of Scorpaena neglecta according to the image of NTMP0678 in the National Taiwan Museum digital archive information system, with a large body size of 370 mm in total length.