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Nelson, J.S., 1994

Scorpaeniformes scorpionfishes and flatheads

Actinopterygii

Perciformes 15 M years

Carroll, R., 1988  |  Helfman, G., B. Collette and D. Facey, 1997

late Tertiary

Marine

Fresh

Brackish

Contains the "mail-cheeked" fishes, distinguished by the suborbital stay, a posterior extension of the third infraorbital bone (counting the lachrymal), which extends across the cheek to the preoperculum and is usually firmly attached to that bone. Head and body tend to be spiny or have bony plates; pectoral fin usually rounded, membranes between lower rays often incised; caudal fin usually rounded (occasionally truncate, rarely forked).

Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335.

Greek, skorpaina, scorpene, 1706. It is a diminutive of Greek, skorpios, "scorpion" + Latin, forma = shape (Ref. 45335). However, the name 'could be Latin in origin ('scrofa') meaning sow, probably because of its plumpness (P.Adamicka, pers.comm. 08/09).

( n = 35 ) -
Abyssocottidae Agonidae Anoplopomatidae Apistidae Aploactinidae Bathylutichthyidae Bembridae Caracanthidae Comephoridae Congiopodidae Cottidae Cottocomephoridae Cyclopteridae Dactylopteridae Ereuniidae Eschmeyeridae Gnathanacanthidae Hemitripteridae Hexagrammidae Hoplichthyidae Liparidae Neosebastidae Normanichthyidae Parabembridae Pataecidae Peristediidae Perryenidae Platycephalidae Plectrogeniidae Psychrolutidae Rhamphocottidae Scorpaenidae Sebastidae Setarchidae Synanceiidae Tetrarogidae Triglidae Zanclorhynchidae

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