- Scorpaeniformes
Taxobox
name = Scorpaeniformes
image_caption =Scorpaenidae :Devil Firefish , "Pterois volitans"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Actinopterygii
ordo = Scorpaeniformes
subdivision_ranks = Suborders
subdivision =Anoplopomatoidei Cottoidei Dactylopteroidei Hexagrammoidei Normanichthyiodei Platycephaloidei Scorpaenoidei See text for familiesScorpaeniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, but it has also been called the Scleroparei. Species in this order have recently been reclassified into the
Perciformes .They are known as "mail-cheeked" fishes due to their distinguishing characteristic, the suborbital stay: a backwards extension of the third circumorbital bone (part of the lateral head/cheek skeleton, below the eye socket) across the cheek to the preoperculum, to which it is connected in most species.
Classification
The division of Scorpaeniformes into families is not settled; accounts range from 26 families [cite book | author = Joseph S. Nelson | title =
Fishes of the World | publisher = John Wiley & Sons | id = ISBN 0-471-54713-1] [ITIS | ID = 166702 | taxon = Scorpaeniformes | date = 31 March | year = 2006] to 35 families [cite book | title = Catalog of Fishes | author = William N. Eschmeyer, Carl J. Ferraris, Mysi D. Hoang, Douglas J. Long | publisher = California Academy of Sciences | year = 1998 | id = ISBN 0-940228-47-5] [FishBase order | order = Scorpaeniformes | month = February | year = 2006] .* Suborder Anoplopomatoidei
**Anoplopomatidae (sablefish andskilfish )
* SuborderCottoidei
** SuperfamilyCottoidea
***Abyssocottidae (deep-water sculpin s)
*** Agonidae (poachers)
***Bathylutichthyidae
***Comephoridae (Baikal oilfish es)
***Cottidae (sculpin s)
***Cottocomephoridae (Baikal sculpin s)
***Ereuniidae
***Hemitripteridae (sea raven s andsailfin sculpin s)
***Icelidae (scaled sculpin s) [Icelidae is described as a separate family by some sources [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Icelidae.html#Icelidae] , containing only the genus "Icelus". However, this genus which is considered to be a member ofCottidae by most other sources [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=167186] ]
***Psychrolutidae (fatheads)
***Rhamphocottidae (grunt sculpin )
** SuperfamilyCyclopteroidea
***Cyclopteridae (lumpsucker s)
*** Liparidae (snailfish es)
* Suborder Dactylopteroidei
**Dactylopteridae (flying gurnard s)
* SuborderHexagrammoidei
**Hexagrammidae (greenling s)
* SuborderNormanichthyiodei
**Normanichthyidae
* SuborderPlatycephaloidei
**Bembridae (deepwater flathead s)
**Hoplichthyidae (ghost flathead s)
**Parabembridae [Parabembridae is included inBembridae in ITIS and Nelson, but split in FishBase and Eschmeyer.]
**Platycephalidae (flathead s)
* SuborderScorpaenoidei
**Apistidae Apistidae ,Neosebastidae ,Plectrogenidae ,Sebastidae , andSetarchidae are included inScorpaenidae in ITIS and Nelson, but split in FishBase and Eschmeyer.]
**Aploactinidae (velvetfish es)
**Caracanthidae (orbicular velvetfish es)
**Congiopodidae (horsefish es andpigfish es)
**Eschmeyeridae
**Gnathanacanthidae (red velvetfish )
**Neosebastidae
**Pataecidae (Australian prowfish es)
**Peristediidae [Peristediidae is included inTriglidae in ITIS and Nelson, but split in FishBase and Eschmeyer.]
**Plectrogenidae
**Scorpaenidae (scorpionfish es androckfish es)
**Sebastidae
**Setarchidae
**Synanceiidae (stonefish es)
**Tetrarogidae (waspfish es)
**Triglidae (searobin s)Notes and references
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