picta, Scorpaena Cuvier [G.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:321 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 4; ref. 998] Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-6707. Types: ?RMNH 5859 (3), ?SMF 309 [ex RMNH in 1829] (1). Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1968:16-17 [ref. 20738]. •Valid as Scorpaena picta Cuvier 1829 -- (Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:315 [ref. 6441], Paxton et al. 1989:448 [ref. 12442], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:574 [ref. 27969] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Larson & Williams 1997:353 [ref. 23967], Hutchins 2001:27 [ref. 25847]). •Valid as Parascorpaena picta (Cuvier 1829) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:50 [ref. 25477], Allen 1997:78 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:503 [ref. 25919], Poss 1999:2327 [ref. 24796], Johnson 1999:727 [ref. 25471], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:605 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:97 [ref. 25868], Allen & Adrim 2003:29 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S102 [ref. 27377], Adrim et al. 2004:119 [ref. 27715], Allen et al. 2006:883 [ref. 29066], Motomura et al. 2009:51 [ref. 30319], Allen & Erdmann 2012:226 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:81 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2016:423 [ref. 34135], Kwik & Lim 2020:12 [ref. 38869], Psomadakis et al. 2020:359 [ref. 37272], Chou & Liao 2022:11 [ref. 39195], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:304 [ref. 40698], Allen & Erdmann 2024:244 [ref. 40796], Luo et al. 2024:9 [ref. 41630]). Current status: Valid as Parascorpaena picta (Cuvier 1829). Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Sri Lanka and Myanmar east to Philippines and Fiji, north to southern China and Taiwan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.