Biology, feeding and habitat preferences of cadenat's rockfish, Scorpaena loppei (actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae), in the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean)

Francesc Ordines, María Valls and Adam Gouraguine, (2012). Biology, feeding and habitat preferences of cadenat's rockfish, Scorpaena loppei (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae), in the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean). Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria (2012) 42 (1): 21–30.

Abstract: Scorpaena loppei Cadenat, 1943 is a small benthic scorpion fish, distributed in the eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay to Mauritania and the Mediterranean Sea. This work constitutes the first complex attempt to study aspects of biology, feeding, bathymetric distribution, and habitat preferences of S. loppei.

Keywords: Scorpaena loppei, small scorpion fish, deep continental shelf, bottom trawl surveys, biological traits, distribution, Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean