THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Scorpaenidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Pontinus clemensi Fitch, 1955 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pontinus corallinus Miranda Ribeiro, 1903 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pontinus macrocephalus (Sauvage, 1882) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pontinus nigerimum Eschmeyer, 1983 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pontinus nigropunctatus (Günther, 1868) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| highfin scorpionfishPontinus rathbuni Goode & Bean, 1896 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pontinus rhodochrous (Günther, 1872) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pontinus tentacularis (Fowler, 1938) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pterois lunulata Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| devil firefishPterois miles (Bennett, 1828) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pterois russelii Bennett, 1831 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| lionfishPterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pteropterus brevipectoralis Mandrytsa, 2002 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pteropterus mombasae Smith, 1957 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pteropterus paucispinula (Matsunuma & Motomura, 2014) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhinopias aphanes Eschmeyer, 1973 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhinopias argoliba Eschmeyer, Hirosaki & Abe, 1973 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhinopias eschmeyeri Condé, 1977 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| weedy scorpionfishRhinopias frondosa (Günther, 1892) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhinopias xenops (Gilbert, 1905) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena afuerae Hildebrand, 1946 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longfin scorpionfishScorpaena agassizii Goode & Bean, 1896 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| coral scorpionfishScorpaena albifimbria Evermann & Marsh, 1900 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena angolensis Norman, 1935 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena annobonae Eschmeyer, 1969 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena ascensionis Eschmeyer, 1971 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena azorica Eschmeyer, 1969 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| goosehead scorpionfishScorpaena bergii Evermann & Marsh, 1900 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| shortfin scorpionfishScorpaena brachyptera Eschmeyer, 1965 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena brevispina Motomura & Senou, 2008 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena bulacephala Motomura, Last & Yearsley, 2005 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| smoothhead scorpionfishScorpaena calcarata Goode & Bean, 1882 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena canariensis (Sauvage, 1878) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena cardinalis Solander & Richardson, 1842 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena cocosensis Motomura, 2004 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena colorata (Gilbert, 1905) | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena decemradiata Fricke, Golani, Appelbaum-Golani & Zajonz, 2018 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| hunchback scorpionfishScorpaena dispar Longley & Hildebrand, 1940 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| dwarf scorpionfishScorpaena elachys Eschmeyer, 1965 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena elongata Cadenat, 1943 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena fernandeziana Steindachner, 1875 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| plumed scorpionfishScorpaena grandicornis Cuvier, 1829 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena grandisquamis Ogilby, 1910 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena grattanica Trunov, 2006 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| California scorpionfishScorpaena guttata Girard, 1854 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena hatizyoensis Matsubara, 1943 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scorpaena hemilepidota Fowler, 1938 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| player scorpionfishScorpaena histrio Jenyns, 1840 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| mushroom scorpionfishScorpaena inermis Cuvier, 1829 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| smoothcheek scorpionfishScorpaena isthmensis Meek & Hildebrand, 1928 | ScorpaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.