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Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scorpaenoidei

WoRMS 154247ITIS 166703GBIF 590key worms:154247
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166703 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 Scorpaenoidei
Photo · Duncan Pritchard · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 30,310 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 23 taxa under it.R

30,310
observations
30,310
records
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
16
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 3 taxa

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154247")