The Scorpaeniformes , also known as the mail-cheeked fishes , are a diverse order of marine and freshwater ray-finned fish . They belong in the group Scleroparei . Scorpaeniforms are widespread throughout the oceans of the world. An example is the sculpin .
Pterois antennata
Here is a list of mail-cheeked fishes:
Order Scorpaeniformes
Suborder Scorpaenoidei
Superfamily Congiopodoidea
Family Aploactinidae Jordan & Starks, 1904 (Velvetfishes)
Family Congiopodidae Gill, 1889 (Racehorses, pigfishes or horsefishes)
Superfamily Pataecoidea
Family Pataecidae Gill, 1872 (Australian prowfishes)
Family Gnathanacanthidae Gill, 1892 (Red velvetfish)
Superfamily Scorpaenoidea
Family Eschmeyeridae Mandrytsa, 2001 (the cofish)
Family Scorpaenidae Risso, 1827 (Scorpionfishes)
Suborder Platycephaloidei
Superfamily Platycephaloidea
Family Bembridae Kaup, 1873 (Deepwater flatheads)
Family Platycephalidae Swainson, 1839 (True flatheads)
Family Hoplichthyidae Kaup, 1873 (Ghost flatheads)
Superfamily Trigloidea
Family Triglidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Common searobins)
Family Peristediidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Armored searobins)
Suborder Normanichthyiodei
Family Normanichthyidae Clark, 1837 (the Barehead scorpionfish or mote sculpin)
Suborder Zoarcoidei
Superfamily Anarhichadoidea
Family Anarhichadidae Bonaparte, 1835 (Wolffishes)
Family Cryptacanthodidae Gill, 1861 (Wrymouths)
Family Stichaeidae Gill, 1864 (Pricklebacks)
Family Pholidae Gill, 1893 (Gunnels)
Superfamily Bathymasteroidea
Family Bathymasteridae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Ronquils)
Family Ptilichthyidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Quillfish)
Superfamily Zoarcoidea
Family Eulophiidae H. M. Smith, 1902 (Spinous eelpouts)
Family Zoarcidae Swainson, 1839 (True Eelpouts)
Superfamily Zaproroidea
Family Scytalinidae Jordan & Starks, 1895 (Graveldivers)
Family Zaproridae Jordan, 1896 (Prowfishes)
Suborder Gasterosteoidei
Family Hypoptychidae Steindachner, 1880 (the Korean Sandlance)
Family Aulorhynchidae Gill (1861) (Tubesnouts)
Family Gasterosteidae Bonaparte, 1831 (Sticklebacks)
Suborder Cottoidei
Superfamily Anoplopomatoidea (Quast, 1965)
Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Blackcod)
Superfamily Zaniolepidoidea Shinohara, 1994
Family Zaniolepididae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Combfishes)
Superfamily Hexagrammoidea Gill, 1889
Family Hexagrammidae Jordan, 1888 (Greenlings)
Superfamily Trichodontoidea Nazarkin & Voskoboinikova, 2000
Family Trichodontidae Bleeker, 1859 (Sandfishes)
Superfamily Cottoidea Gill, 1889
Family Jordaniidae Jordan & Evermann, 1898 (Longfin sculpins)
Family Rhamphocottidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Grunt sculpins)
Family Scorpaenichthyidae Jordan & Evermann, 1898
Family Agonidae Swainson, 1839 (Poachers and searavens)
Family Cottidae Bonaparte, 1831 (Sculpins)
Family Psychrolutidae Günther, 1861 (Bighead sculpins)
Family Bathylutichthyidae Balushkin & Voskoboinikova, 1990 (Antarctic sculpins)
Superfamily Cyclopteroidea Gill, 1873
Family Cyclopteridae Bonaparte, 1831 (lumpfishes or lumpsuckers)
Family Liparidae Gill, 1861 (Snailfishes)
Deepwater scorpionfish (Setarchinae )
Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Scorpaeniformes" in FishBase . February 2006 version.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2021). "Erilepis zonifer " in FishBase . June 2021 version.
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Taxon identifiers
Wikidata: Q208777
Wikispecies: Scorpaeniformes
ADW: Scorpaeniformes
AFD: Scorpaeniformes
BOLD: 258
CoL: 42M
EoL: 46567840
EPPO: 1SCOPO
Fauna Europaea: 12061
Fauna Europaea (new): 4407964d-a6a5-427d-b2fe-589f91a64106
Fossilworks: 35887
GBIF: 590
iNaturalist: 47286
IRMNG: 11378
ITIS: 166702
NBN: NBNSYS0000172162
NCBI: 8091
NZOR: 06d718aa-a222-4302-bf16-d0a546e48362
Plazi: AB0787CD-0A42-FF9C-FDAB-FCFAE5B62628
uBio: 113924
WoRMS: 10329
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