Species that contain: Scorpaenopsis and gibbosa [ 3 ] records

axillaris, Scorpaena Bliss [R.] 1883:51 [Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius (N. S.) v. 13; ref. 16966] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MCZ 6028. •Synonym of Sebastapistes mauritiana Cuvier 1829 -- (Fricke 1999:163 [ref. 24106]). •Synonym of Scorpaenopsis gibbosa (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (W. Eschmeyer, pers. observation of holotype, Heemstra 2004:3337 [ref. 27945], Motomura & Shinohara 2005:300 [ref. 29181]). Current status: Synonym of Scorpaenopsis gibbosa (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae. Habitat: marine.

gibbosa, Scorpaena Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:192, Pl. 44 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] "America" [erroneous, is Indo-West Pacific]. Holotype (unique): ZMB 768. Type catalog: Paepke & Fricke 1992:270 [ref. 19946], Paepke 1999:132 [ref. 24282]. See McCosker 1998:810 [ref. 24025]. •Synonym of Scorpaenopsis barbata (Rüppell 1838) -- (Dor 1984:83 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Scorpaenopsis gibbosa (Bloch & Schneider 1901) -- (Eschmeyer 1986:474 [ref. 5652], Eschmeyer & Randall 1975:305 [ref. 6389], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:88 [ref. 15964], Paxton et al. 1989:451 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:21 [ref. 13251], Goren & Dor 1994:22 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:573 [ref. 27969], Chen et al. 1997:166 [ref. 26476], Fricke 1999:162 [ref. 24106], Poss 1999:2307 [ref. 24796], Johnson 1999:727 [ref. 25471], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:606 [ref. 25122], Randall & Eschmeyer 2002:24 [ref. 25801], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:26 [ref. 27712], Heemstra et al. 2004:3318 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:145 [ref. 28072], Motomura & Shinohara 2005:300 [ref. 29181], Fricke et al. 2009:40 [ref. 30213], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:65 [ref. 35264], Motomura & Causse 2011:51 [ref. 31125], Motomura et al. 2011:68 [ref. 31308], Fricke et al. 2013:208 [ref. 32769], Fricke et al. 2018:134 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:28 [ref. 36883], Poss & Motomura 2022:540 [ref. 39725]). Current status: Valid as Scorpaenopsis gibbosa (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) north to Kenya, east to Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar, Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) and Chagos Archipelago. Habitat: marine.

nesogallica, Scorpaena Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:315 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 4; ref. 998] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-0774 (1), 0000-6671 (1). Non-types?: ZMB 754 (1), 755 (1). Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1968:15-16 [ref. 20738], Paepke & Fricke 1992:271 [ref. 19946]. •Synonym of Scorpaenopsis gibbosa (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Eschmeyer 1986:474 [ref. 5652], Fricke 1999:162 [ref. 24106], Randall & Eschmeyer 2002:24 [ref. 25801], Motomura et al. 2011:68 [ref. 31308]). Current status: Synonym of Scorpaenopsis gibbosa (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae. Habitat: marine.