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, while other authorities treat it as a subfamily within a reduced family Scorpaenidae within the suborder Scorpaenoidei, or the superfamily Scorpaenoidea within the order Perciformes.

Genera

The tribe Scorpaenini contains at least 17 genera and nearly 200 species:

Scorpaenini

Hipposcorpaena Fowler, 1938

Hoplosebastes Schmidt, 1929

Idiastion Eschmeyer, 1965

Iracundus Jordan & Evermann, 1903

Neomerinthe Fowler, 1935

Neoscorpaena Mandrytsa, 2001

Parascorpaena Bleeker, 1876

Phenacoscorpius Fowler, 1938

Pogonoscorpius Regan, 1908

Pontinus Poey 1860

Pteroidichthys Bleeker, 1856

Rhinopias Gill, 1905

Scorpaena Linnaeus, 1758

Scorpaenodes Bleeker, 1857

Scorpaenopsis Heckel 1837

Sebastapistes Gill, 1877

Taenianotus Lacépède, 1802

Thysanichthys Jordan & Starks, 1904

Ursinoscorpaenopsis Nakabo & Yamada, 1996

References

Scorpaeninae

Taxa named by Antoine Risso

Fish tribes

Scorpaenini