Pteroini | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Scorpaenidae |
Subfamily: | Scorpaeninae |
Tribe: |
Pteroini Kaup, 1873 [1] |
Type species | |
Scorpaena volitans | |
Genera | |
See text |
Pteroini is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes, one of two tribes in the subfamily Scorpaeninae. This tribe includes the lionfishes, sawcheek scorpionfishes and turkeyfishes. The taxonomy of the scorpionfishes is in some flux; the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World treats this taxa 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]
The following genera are included in the tribe Pterioni, totalling 5 genera and 29 species: [3] [6] [7]
Image | Genus |
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Brachypterois Fowler, 1938 | |
Dendrochirus Swainson, 1839 | |
Ebosia Jordan & Starks, 1904 | |
Parapterois Bleeker, 1876 | |
Pterois Oken, 1817 |