Scorpaenini is a

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of marine

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es, one of two tribes in the subfamily

Scorpaeninae Scorpaeninae is a subfamily of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Scorpaeniformes, it includes the scorpionfishes, the lionfishes and turkeyfishes. They bear venomous spines in the anal, dorsal and pelvic fins which ...

. This tribe contains the "typical" or "true" scorpionfishes. The taxonomy of the scorpionfishes is in some flux, the 5th Edition of

Fishes of the World ''Fishes of the World'' by the American Ichthyology, ichthyologist Joseph S. Nelson (1937–2011) is a standard reference for fish systematics. Now in its fifth edition (2016), the work is a comprehensive overview of the diversity and classificat ...

treats this taxa as a tribe within the subfamily Scorpaeninae of the

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Scorpaenidae within the

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Scorpaeniformes The Scorpaeniformes are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, including the lionfishes and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei. It is one of the five largest orders of bony fishes by number of species, with over 1,320. They are k ...

, while other authorities treat it as a subfamily within a reduced family Scorpaenidae within the suborder Scorpaenoidei, or the superfamily Scorpaenoidea within the order

Perciformes Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means ...

Genera

The tribe Scorpaenini contains at least 17 genera and nearly 200 species: * '' Hipposcorpaena'' Fowler, 1938 * '' Hoplosebastes'' Schmidt, 1929 * '' Idiastion'' Eschmeyer, 1965 * '' Iracundus''

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& Evermann, 1903 * '' Neomerinthe'' Fowler, 1935 * '' Neoscorpaena'' Mandrytsa, 2001 * ''

Parascorpaena ''Parascorpaena'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Parascorpaena'' was first formally described as a mon ...

'' Bleeker, 1876 * ''

Phenacoscorpius ''Phenacoscorpius'', the no-lined scorpionfishes, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are native to the western Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Taxonomy ''Phenacoscorpius'' wa ...

'' Fowler, 1938 * ''

Pogonoscorpius ''Pogonoscorpius'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It is a monotypic genus, its ony species is ''Pogonoscorpius sechellensis'' which occurs in the western Indian Ocean in the seas ar ...

Regan The family name Regan, along with its cognates O'Regan, O Regan, Reagan, and O'Reagan, is an Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Riagáin or Ó Ríogáin, from Ua Riagáin. The meaning is likely to have originated in ancient Gaelic ''ri' ...

, 1908 * '' Pontinus'' Poey 1860 * '' Pteroidichthys'' Bleeker, 1856 * '' Rhinopias''

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, 1905 * ''

Scorpaena ''Scorpaena'' is a widespread genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. Taxonomy ''Scorpaena'' was first described as a genus in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th Edition of his ''Systema Naturae ...

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...

, 1758 * '' Scorpaenodes'' Bleeker, 1857 * '' Scorpaenopsis'' Heckel 1837 * '' Sebastapistes'' Gill, 1877 * '' Taenianotus''

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, 1802 * '' Thysanichthys'' Jordan & Starks, 1904 * '' Ursinoscorpaenopsis'' Nakabo & Yamada, 1996

References

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