Description
English: Deepwater scorpionfish (Setarches guentheri) from the Gulf of Mexico
Date 17 October 2003, 18:18
Source NOAA Photo Library or fish4456
Author SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC (@Flickr NOAA Photo Library http://www.flickr.com/people/51647007@N08)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Setarches_guentheri_by_NOAA.jpg

Setarches guentheri, channeled rockfish or deepwater scorpionfish, is a species of deep-sea bristly scorpionfishes (Setarchidae). Setarches guentheri is a bathydemersal fish at depths of 150-780 m. It frequents the Atlantic and the Pacific. Setarches guentheri usually measure around 80 mm but some individuals can reach 240 mm. Body gray or pink, covered with very small cycloid scales.
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Setarchidae
Genus: Setarches
Species: Setarches guentheri J. Y. Johnson, 1862