Pteroinae

Pteroinae
Temporal range:
Pterois volitans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:
Kaup, 1873[1]
Type species
Scorpaena volitans
Bloch, 1787[2]
Genera

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Pteroinae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes in the family Scorpaenidae. This tribe includes the lionfishes, sawcheek scorpionfishes and turkeyfishes. Previously, the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World treated this group 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] Presently, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes treats it as a subfamily within Scorpaenidae.[6]

Genera

The following genera are included in the subfamily Pteroinae, totalling 7 genera and 29 species:[7]

Image Genus
Brachypterois Fowler, 1938
Dendrochirus Swainson, 1839
Ebosia Jordan & Starks, 1904
Nemapterois Fowler, 1938
Neochirus Chou, Liu & Liao, 2023
Parapterois Bleeker, 1876
Pterois Oken, 1817

The only fossil record of the family is †Eopterois Schwarzhans, Stringer & Takeuchi, 2024, known from fossil otoliths from the Middle Eocene of Mississippi, US.[8]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Gilbert Whitley (1939). "Ichthyological genotypes: Desmarest's designations, 1874". Australian Zoologist. 9 (3): 222–226.
  3. ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 468–475. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  4. ^ Ricardo Betancur-R; Edward O. Wiley; Gloria Arratia; et al. (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162). doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3. PMC 5501477.
  5. ^ Hisashi Imamura (2004). "Phylogenetic Relationships and New Classification of the Superfamily Scorpaenoidea (Actinopterygii: Perciformes)". Species Diversity. 9: 1–36.
  6. ^ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences.
  7. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pteroinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  8. ^ SCHWARZHANS, WERNER W.; STRINGER, GARY L.; TAKEUCHI, GARY T. (2024-07-16). "THE MIDDLE EOCENE BONY FISH FAUNA OF CALIFORNIA, USA, RECONSTRUCTED BY MEANS OF OTOLITHS". RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA. 130 (2). ISSN 2039-4942. Archived from the original on 2025-06-29.
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