“…Scorpaenodes corallinus differs from other Indo-Pacific congeners in having nasal spines [vs. absent in S. albaiensis (Evermann and Seale, 1907), S. bathycolus Erdmann, 2012, andS. minor (Smith, 1958) (Motomura et al 2009;Allen and Erdmann 2012b)], the underside of the head without scales [vs. scaled in S. tribulosus Eschmeyer, 1969(Eschmeyer 1969bEschmeyer and Rama Rao 1972)], more than 41 scale rows in the longitudinal series [vs. fewer than 35 scale rows in S. hirsutus (Smith, 1957) andS. kelloggi (Jenkins, 1903) (Hoshino and Motomura 2021)], and usually 8 dorsal-fin soft rays [vs. 9 or 10 soft rays in all remaining species (Eschmeyer and Rama Rao 1972;Poss 1999;Greenfield and Matsuura 2002)].…”