Description
Русский: Черноморская скорпена-ёрш
Latina: Scorpaena porcus
Date 17 December 2012, 19:51:10
Author Dmitriy Konstantinov
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scorpaena-porcus1.jpg

The black scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus) is a venomous Scorpionfish, common in marine subtropical waters. It is widespread in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean from the British Isles to the Azores and Canary Islands, near the coasts of Morocco, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. Order: Scorpaeniformes, Family: Scorpaenidae, Genus: Scorpaena, Species: Scorpaena porcus (Linnaeus, 1758), Synonyms: Scorpaena erythraea Cuvier, 1829.