Scorpaenini Explained

Scorpaenini is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes, one of two tribes in the subfamily Scorpaeninae. This tribe contains the "typical" or "true" scorpionfishes. 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,^[1] while other authorities treat it as a subfamily within a reduced family Scorpaenidae within the suborder Scorpaenoidei,^[2] or the superfamily Scorpaenoidea within the order Perciformes.^[3]

Genera

The tribe Scorpaenini contains at least 17 genera and nearly 200 species:^[1]

• Hipposcorpaena Fowler, 1938
• Hoplosebastes Schmidt, 1929
• Idiastion Eschmeyer, 1965
• Iracundus Jordan & Evermann, 1903
• Neomerinthe Fowler, 1935
• Neoscorpaena Mandrytsa, 2001
• Parascorpaena Bleeker, 1876
• Phenacoscorpius Fowler, 1938
• Pogonoscorpius Regan, 1908
• Pontinus Poey 1860
• Pteroidichthys Bleeker, 1856
• Rhinopias Gill, 1905
• Scorpaena Linnaeus, 1758
• Scorpaenodes Bleeker, 1857
• Scorpaenopsis Heckel 1837
• Sebastapistes Gill, 1877
• Taenianotus Lacépède, 1802
• Thysanichthys Jordan & Starks, 1904
• Ursinoscorpaenopsis Nakabo & Yamada, 1996

Notes and References

1. Book: Fishes of the World . 5th . J. S. Nelson . T. C. Grande . M. V. H. Wilson . 2016 . 468–475 . Wiley . 978-1-118-34233-6 .
2. Ricardo Betancur-R . Edward O. Wiley . Gloria Arratia . Arturo Acero . Nicolas Bailly . Masaki Miya . Guillaume Lecointre . Guillermo Ortí . 3 . Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes . BMC Evolutionary Biology . 17 . 162 . 2017 . 162 . 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3. 28683774 . 5501477 . free .
3. Hisashi Imamura . 2004 . Phylogenetic Relationships and New Classification of the Superfamily Scorpaenoidea (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) . Species Diversity . 9 . 1–36 . 10.12782/specdiv.9.1 . free .