Pteroinae Temporal range: | |
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Pterois volitans | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Scorpaenidae |
Subfamily: | Pteroinae Kaup, 1873 [1] |
Type species | |
Scorpaena volitans | |
Genera | |
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Pteroinae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes in the family Scorpaenidae. This tribe includes the lionfishes, sawcheek scorpionfishes, and turkeyfishes. Previously, the fifth edition of Fishes of the World treated this group as a tribe within the subfamily Scorpaeninae of the family Scorpaenidae within the order Scorpaeniformes, [3] while other authorities treat it as a subfamily within a reduced family Scorpaenidae within the suborder Scorpaenoidei, [4] or the superfamily Scorpaenoidea within the order Perciformes. [5] Presently, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes treats it as a subfamily within Scorpaenidae. [6]
These seven genera are included in the subfamily Pteroinae, in 29 species: [7]
Image | Genus |
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![]() | Brachypterois Fowler, 1938 |
![]() | Dendrochirus Swainson, 1839 |
![]() | Ebosia Jordan & Starks, 1904 |
![]() | Nemapterois Fowler, 1938 |
![]() | Neochirus Chou, Liu & Liao, 2023 |
![]() | Parapterois Bleeker, 1876 |
![]() | Pterois Oken, 1817 |
The only fossil record of the family is † Eopterois ,Schwarzhans, Stringer & Takeuchi, 2024 known from fossil otoliths from the Middle Eocene of Mississippi, US. [8]
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