Sebastolobinae

Sebastolobinae
Longspine thornyhead ( Sebastolobus altivelis )
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:	Sebastolobinae Matsubara, 1943
Genera
Adelosebastes Sebastolobus Trachyscorpia

Sebastolobinae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Perciformes. ^[1] Many species have the common name thornyhead.

Taxonomy

Sebastolobini was first formally recognised as a grouping in 1943 by the Japanese ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara. ^[2] More recently, authorities like Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes , who treat the clade referred to as Sebastinae as a family, treat the Sebastolobini as a subfamily and call this grouping Sebastolobinae. ^{[3] [1]}

Genera

Sebastolobinae contains three genera with 11 species, most in Trachyscorpia. ^{[4] [3]}

• Adelosebastes Eschmeyer, T. Abe & Nakano, 1979
• Sebastolobus Gill, 1881
• Trachyscorpia Ginsburg, 1953

References

1. Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences.
2. 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.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sebastolobinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 6 August 2025.
4. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 469. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6.