Check List 16(5): 1125-1128, doi: 10.15560/16.5.1125
First record of the Radial Lionfish, Pterois radiata Cuvier, 1829 (Scorpaeniformes, Scorpaenidae), for Kosrae, Micronesia
Floyd E. Hayes‡‡ Pacific Union College, Angwin, United States of America
Corresponding author: Floyd E. Hayes ( fhayes@puc.edu ) Academic editor: Hudson Tercio Pinheiro © Floyd E. Hayes. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Hayes FE (2020) First record of the Radial Lionfish, Pterois radiata Cuvier, 1829 (Scorpaeniformes, Scorpaenidae), for Kosrae, Micronesia. Check List 16(5): 1125-1128. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1125 |  |
Abstract
The Radial Lionfish, Pterois radiata Cuvier, 1829, is widely distributed across the tropical Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean and has been previously documented from most of the major island groups of Micronesia, but not from Kosrae. On 21 June 2014 an adult P. radiata was photographed in shallow water along the eastern edge of Blue Hole near Lelu village, Kosrae, Micronesia, providing the first documented record for Kosrae.
Keywords
Geographic distribution, marine fish, Pacific Ocean, range extension