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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scorpaeninae

WoRMS 154409ITIS 643442key worms:154409
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2026-08-05: itis_id 643442 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scorpaena elongata

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 Scorpaeninae
Photo · adrianmark · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 435 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1956 and 2019, across 5 taxa under it.R

435
observations
435
records
1956–2019
years
1
datasets
3
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:154409")