Scorpaeniformes
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Scorpaeniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Scleroparei or Dactylopteriformes, closely related to and sometimes included in the Perciformes. There are about 20 families:
- Suborder Anoplopomatoidei
- Anoplopomatidae (sablefishes, consists of the sablefish and skilfish)
- Suborder Cottoidei
- Superfamily Cottoidea
- Abyssocottidae (deep-sea sculpins)
- Agonidae (poachers, including alligatorfish and starsnouts)
- Bathylutichthyidae
- Comephoridae (Baikal oilfishes)
- Cottidae (sculpins)
- Cottocomephoridae (Baikal sculpins)
- Ereuniidae
- Hemitripteridae (sea ravens and sailfin sculpins)
- Icelidae (scaled sculpins)1
- Psychrolutidae (fatheads)
- Rhamphocottidae (grunt sculpin)
- Superfamily Cyclopteroidea
- Cyclopteridae (lumpsuckers or lumpfishes)
- Liparidae (snailfishes)
- Superfamily Cottoidea
- Suborder Dactylopteroidei
- Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)
- Suborder Hexagrammoidei
- Hexagrammidae (greenlings, including combfishes)
- Suborder Normanichthyiodei
- Suborder Platycephaloidei
- Bembridae (deepwater flatheads)
- Hoplichthyidae (ghost flatheads)
- Platycephalidae (flatheads)
- Suborder Scorpaenoidei
- Aploactinidae (velvetfishes)
- Caracanthidae (orbicular velvetfishes, including crouchers)
- Congiopodidae (horsefishes and pigfishes)
- Gnathanacanthidae (red velvetfish)
- Pataecidae (Australian prowfishes)
- Scorpaenidae (scorpionfishes and rockfishes)
- Synanceiidae (stonefishes)
- Triglidae (searobins)
Notes
1 : Icelidae is sometimes described as a separate family [1] [2], containing only the Icelus genus, which is considered to be a member of the Cottidae family by most other sources.
