russula, Scorpaena Jordan [D. S.] & Bollman [C. H.] 1890:165 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 12 (no. 770); ref. 2433] Off Pacific coast of Colombia, depth 33 fathoms. Syntypes: BMNH 1900.9.29.189 (1) from Jordan; NMW 8864 (1); CAS-SU 384 (4); USNM 41138 (1), 41140 (1), 41146 (1), 41154 (1) 41160 (1), 41191 (1), 41208-09 (1, 1), 41366 (1), 41379 (1), 41487-88 (1, 1), 205651 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:121 [ref. 12291], Fricke et al. 2018:[16] [ref. 36159]. •Valid as Scorpaena russula Jordan & Bollman 1890 -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:100 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:82 [ref. 23101], Poss in Fischer et al. 1995:1557 [ref. 22830], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:268 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:238 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:70 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:114 [ref. 27807], Motomura 2004:821 [ref. 28049], Love et al. 2005:73 [ref. 37547], Butler et al. 2012:164 [ref. 40735], Page et al. 2013:116 [ref. 32708], Victor 2013:30 [ref. 32943], Barriga Salazar 2014:117 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:402 [ref. 34894], Fricke et al. 2018:[16] [ref. 36159], González-Murcia et al. 2019:306 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:105 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:178 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:373 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Scorpaena russula Jordan & Bollman 1890. Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to northern Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.