Pterois miles (Bennett 1828)

Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, Zootaxa 4775 (1), pp. 1-157 : 145

Pterois miles (Bennett 1828) —Devil firefish

Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Pterois miles (Bennett 1828) by Bariche et al. (2013a); as Pterois miles by Bariche et al. (2015: 2366); as Pterois miles by Crocetta & Bariche in Dailianis et al. (2016: 621–623); and Bariche et al. (2017) and Aguillar et al. (2018: 82). Material in collection: AUBM.

Distribution. Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East and South Africa, Sokotra, Madagascar, Mascarenes and Persian Gulf east to Indonesia; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant); invasive in the Western Atlantic.

Conservation. IUCN: Global ( LC: 20 June 2017). Capture and threats: Unknown. Occurrence: Very common. Significant increase in the last two decades. Non-indigenous species, no conservation action needed .