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Nelson, J.S., 1994

Scorpaeniformes scorpionfishes and flatheads

Teleostei

Perciformes 15 M years

Carroll, R., 1988  |  Helfman, G., B. Collette and D. Facey, 1997

late Tertiary

Marin

Eau douce

Saumâtre

Contains the "mail-cheeked" fishes, distinguished by the suborbital stay, a posterior extension of the third infraorbital bone (counting the lachrymal), which extends across the cheek to the preoperculum and is usually firmly attached to that bone. Head and body tend to be spiny or have bony plates; pectoral fin usually rounded, membranes between lower rays often incised; caudal fin usually rounded (occasionally truncate, rarely forked).

Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335.

Greek, skorpaina, scorpene, 1706. It is a diminutive of Greek, skorpios, "scorpion" + Latin, forma = shape (Ref. 45335). However, the name 'could be Latin in origin ('scrofa') meaning sow, probably because of its plumpness (P.Adamicka, pers.comm. 08/09).

( n = 35 ) -
Abyssocottidae Caracanthidae Comephoridae Cottocomephoridae Parabembridae

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