Scorpaena onaria (Scorpaenidae), Previously Considered to Have an Antitropical Distribution, Found in Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, Western Central Pacific Ocean

A single specimen (150.0 mm standard length) of the scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae), Scorpaena onaria, was collected off Bitung, northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. The species has previously been known only from East Asia and Australasia and been considered to represent an antitropical distribution; thus the Indonesian specimen is described herein as the first record of S. onaria from the western central Pacific Ocean. The Indonesian specimen indicates that S. onaria is widely and continuously distributed in the western Pacific where it ranges from Korea and Japan to Australia and New Zealand