Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Phenacoscorpius mccoskeri
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Perciformes
Family
Scorpaenidae
Genus
Phenacoscorpius
Species
mccoskeri
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- Wibowo, K. Motomura, H. (2017) A new species of the deepwater scorpionfish genus Phenacoscorpius (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) from the Galápagos Islands. Zootaxa, 4323(2), 261–268. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.9
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"Galapagos Species Database, Phenacoscorpius mccoskeri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24710. Accessed 5 November 2026.