Classification
The division of Scorpaeniformes into families is not settled; accounts range from 26 to 35 families.
Order Scorpaeniformes
- Suborder Anoplopomatoidei
- Anoplopomatidae (sablefish and skilfish)
- Suborder Cottoidei
- Superfamily Cottoidea
- Abyssocottidae (deep-water sculpins)
- Agonidae (poachers)
- Bathylutichthyidae
- Comephoridae (Baikal oilfishes)
- Cottidae (sculpins)
- Cottocomephoridae (Baikal sculpins)
- Ereuniidae
- Hemitripteridae (sea ravens and sailfin sculpins)
- Icelidae (scaled sculpins)
- Psychrolutidae (fatheads)
- Rhamphocottidae (grunt sculpin)
- Superfamily Cyclopteroidea
- Cyclopteridae (lumpsuckers)
- Liparidae (snailfishes)
- Superfamily Cottoidea
- Suborder Dactylopteroidei
- Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)
- Suborder Hexagrammoidei
- Hexagrammidae (greenlings)
- Suborder Normanichthyiodei
- Normanichthyidae
- Suborder Platycephaloidei
- Bembridae (deepwater flatheads)
- Hoplichthyidae (ghost flatheads)
- Parabembridae
- Platycephalidae (flatheads)
- Suborder Scorpaenoidei
- Apistidae
- Aploactinidae (velvetfishes)
- Caracanthidae (orbicular velvetfishes)
- Congiopodidae (horsefishes and pigfishes)
- Eschmeyeridae
- Gnathanacanthidae (red velvetfish)
- Neosebastidae
- Pataecidae (Australian prowfishes)
- Peristediidae
- Plectrogenidae
- Scorpaenidae (scorpionfishes)
- Sebastidae (rockfishes)
- Setarchidae
- Synanceiidae (stonefishes)
- Tetrarogidae (waspfishes)
- Triglidae (searobins)
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