Scorpaeninae
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2026-08-05: itis_id 643442 via WoRMS external link
Scorpaeninae is a subfamily of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Perciformes, it includes the scorpionfishes. They bear venomous spines in the anal, dorsal and pelvic fins which can cause severe pain in envenomated humans.W CalCOFI holds 436 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1956 and 2019, across 5 taxa under it.R
- 436
- observations
- 436
- records
- 1956–2019
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 3
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Scorpaena 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:154409")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:154409'").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 · Scorpaena most observed
- G Scorpaena368
- G Pontinus42
- G Scorpaenodes26
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Scorpaenidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scorpaena elongata · source
- Photo · adrianmark · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Scorpaeninae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1352494488
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 ↗