Helicolenus | |
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Blackbelly rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Scorpaenidae |
Subfamily: | Sebastinae |
Tribe: | Sebastini |
Genus: | Helicolenus Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 |
Type species | |
Scorpaena dactyloptera | |
Species | |
See text. |
Helicolenus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Scorpaenidae where they are classified within the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes. The species in this genus are found in the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans.