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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scorpaenidae

Scorpionfishes

WoRMS 125595ITIS 166704GBIF 4508key worms:125595
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166704 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Scorpaenidae
Photo · Motusaga Vaeoso · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Scorpaenidae are a family of mostly marine fishes that includes many of the world's most venomous species. As their name suggests, scorpionfish have a type of "sting" in the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus.W CalCOFI holds 499 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, as larva, across 6 taxa under it.R

499
observations
499
records
64
sampling events
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 64 obs · 64 events · 1951–2006 · larva
    name used: Scorpaenidae Scorpionfishes · code 670

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125595%22