Scorpaeniformes
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Scorpaeniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Scleroparei or Dactylopteriformes, closely related to and sometimes included in the Perciformes.
They are known as "mail-cheeked" fishes due to their distinguishing characteristic, the suborbital stay: a backwards extension of the third infraorbital bone (part of the skull, 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[Scorpaeniformes (TSN 166702)]. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 31 March 2006. to 35 families["Scorpaeniformes"]. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006..
- Suborder Anoplopomatoidei
- * Anoplopomatidae (sablefish and skilfish)
- Suborder Cottoidei
- * Superfamily Cottoidea
- ** Abyssocottidae (deep-water sculpins)
- ** Agonidae (poachers)
- ** Bathylutichthyidae
- ** Comephoridae (Baikal oilfishes)
- ** Cottidae (sculpins)
- ** Cottocomephoridae (Baikal sculpins)
- ** Ereuniidae
- ** Hemitripteridae (sea ravens and sailfin sculpins)
- ** Icelidae (scaled sculpins)Icelidae is described as a separate family by some sources [link], containing only the genus Icelus. However, this genus which is considered to be a member of Cottidae by most other sources [link]
- ** Psychrolutidae (fatheads)
- ** Rhamphocottidae (grunt sculpin)
- * Superfamily Cyclopteroidea
- ** Cyclopteridae (lumpsuckers)
- ** Liparidae (snailfishes)
- Suborder Dactylopteroidei
- * Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)
- Suborder Hexagrammoidei
- * Hexagrammidae (greenlings)
- Suborder Normanichthyiodei
- * Normanichthyidae
- Suborder Platycephaloidei
- * Bembridae (deepwater flatheads)
- * Hoplichthyidae (ghost flatheads)
- * ParabembridaeParabembridae is included in Bembridae in ITIS and Nelson, but split in FishBase and Eschmeyer.
- * Platycephalidae (flatheads)
- Suborder Scorpaenoidei
- * ApistidaeApistidae, Neosebastidae, Plectrogenidae, Sebastidae, and Setarchidae are included in Scorpaenidae in ITIS and Nelson, but split in FishBase and Eschmeyer.
- * Aploactinidae (velvetfishes)
- * Caracanthidae (orbicular velvetfishes)
- * Congiopodidae (horsefishes and pigfishes)
- * Eschmeyeridae
- * Gnathanacanthidae (red velvetfish)
- * Neosebastidae
- * Pataecidae (Australian prowfishes)
- * PeristediidaePeristediidae is included in Triglidae in ITIS and Nelson, but split in FishBase and Eschmeyer.
- * Plectrogenidae
- * Scorpaenidae (scorpionfishes and rockfishes)
- * Sebastidae
- * Setarchidae
- * Synanceiidae (stonefishes)
- * Tetrarogidae (waspfishes)
- * Triglidae (searobins)
Notes and references
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