Scorpaenini | |
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Black scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Scorpaenidae |
Subfamily: | Scorpaeninae |
Tribe: | Scorpaenini Risso, 1826[1] |
Type species | |
Scorpaena porcus | |
Genera | |
See text |
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,[2] while other authorities treat it as a subfamily within a reduced family Scorpaenidae within the suborder Scorpaenoidei,[3] or the superfamily Scorpaenoidea within the order Perciformes.[4]