Pteroinae

Pteroinae Temporal range: Middle Eocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Pterois volitans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:	Pteroinae Kaup, 1873 [1]
Type species
Scorpaena volitans Bloch, 1787 [2]
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]

Genera

These seven genera are included in the subfamily Pteroinae, in 29 species: ^[7]

Image	Genus
	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]

References

1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
2. Gilbert Whitley (1939). "Ichthyological genotypes: Desmarest's designations, 1874". Australian Zoologist. 9 (3): 222–226.
3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 468–475. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6.
4. Ricardo Betancur-R; Edward O. Wiley; Gloria Arratia; et al. (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162) 162. Bibcode:2017BMCEE..17..162B. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 . PMC   5501477 . PMID   28683774.
5. Hisashi Imamura (2004). "Phylogenetic Relationships and New Classification of the Superfamily Scorpaenoidea (Actinopterygii: Perciformes)". Species Diversity. 9: 1–36. doi: 10.12782/specdiv.9.1 .
6. Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences.
7. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pteroinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 3 August 2025.
8. SCHWARZHANS, WERNER W.; STRINGER, GARY L.; TAKEUCHI, GARY T. (2024-07-16). "THE MIDDLE EOCENE BONY FISH FAUNA OF CALIFORNIA, USA, RECONSTRUCTED BY MEANS OF OTOLITHS". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 130 (2): 22783. Bibcode:2024RIPS..13022783S. doi: 10.54103/2039-4942/22783 . ISSN   2039-4942. Archived from the original on 2025-06-29.