Lythrichthys eulabes, Jordan's red deepwater scorpionfsh

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Lythrichthys eulabes Jordan & Starks, 1904

Jordan's red deepwater scorpionfsh
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Setarchidae (Deep-sea bristly scorpionfishes)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathydemersal. Subtropical

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Indo-West Pacific: Japan, East China Sea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Sulu Sea, Indonesia, Australia, Vanuatu, and Fiji.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 17.6 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 123746)

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This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: scale rows between 6th dorsal-fin spine and lateral line 9-11 (usually 10); scale rows between last dorsal-fin spine and lateral line 10-12 (11); middle postorbital scale rows 3-5 (4); caudal-peduncle depth 8.8-10.9% (mean 9.9%) of SL; interorbital width at vertical midline of eye 23.3-31.2% (25.6%) of HL; maxillary depth 16.0-18.9% (16.9%) of HL; lower opercular spine length 25.6-36.2% (32.8%) of HL;; dorsal margin of interorbital space slightly raised; nasal and parietal spines present (imbedded about 12.0 cm SL or more); no supraocular spine; second lacrimal spine directed ventrally or posteroventrally (usually posteroventrally); tip of lower opercular spine beyond posterior margin of opercle (sometimes just short of margin in specimens up to ca. 8.0 cm SL); jaws with short, dense conical teeth; premaxillary teeth in 3-6 irregular rows, totaling ca. 200 teeth. Colouration: head and body base color scarlet to dull red (rarely dusky red), with smudge-like or numerous small blurred black blotches above the lateral line when fresh; caudal fin uniformly pale in preserved specimens; palate surrounded by vomerine and palatine plates and gill arches grey (oral surface uniformly pale in specimens up to ca. 8.0 cm SL (Ref. 123746).
Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Wada, H., Y. Kai and H. Motomura, 2021. Revision of the resurrected deep-water scorpionfish genus Lythrichthys Jordan and Starks 1904 (Setarchidae), with description of two new species. Ichthyol. Res. 68(3):373-403. (Ref. 123746)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5317   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01047 (0.00421 - 0.02606), b=3.04 (2.82 - 3.26), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.2   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (11 of 100). 🛈