Scorpaenoidei
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166703 via WoRMS external link
Scorpaenoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes, part of the order Perciformes, that includes the scorpionfishes, lionfishes, stonefishes, sea robins and flatheads. This suborder is at its most diverse in the Pacific and Indian Oceans but is also found in the Atlantic Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 32,794 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 52 taxa under it.R
- 32,794
- observations
- 32,794
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 45
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Sebastidae most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154247")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:154247'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 3 taxa · Sebastidae most observed
- F Sebastidae rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads31,903
- F Scorpaenidae Scorpionfishes500
- F Triglidae Searobins391
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Perciformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops · source
- Photo · Duncan Pritchard · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Scorpaenoidei” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354730664
Elsewhere Wikidata
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗