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Scorpaeniformes
Sign in to saveThe Scorpaeniformes are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, encompassing species such as the stonefish, lionfish, and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei. It is one of the five largest orders of bony fishes by number of species, with over 1,320.
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Scorpaeniformes is an order of animals within the class Teleostei and phylum Chordata. It falls under the parent taxa Acanthopterygii and Actinopterygii. The taxon is governed by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and is currently listed with an unaccepted status in the World Register of Marine Species. Common names for the group include ulkefisker, bodike, and kindpansrade fiskar.
The order inhabits marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Specimens have been recorded in the United States, Micronesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. These records are held by institutions including UCMP, CAS, NMV, NCSM, and LACM. The taxon has an occurrence count of 8,278,032 and a specific record count of 141.
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Species
kindpansrade fiskar
Scorpaeniformes
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderScorpaeniformes
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 141
- Collections
- UCMP, CAS, NMV, NCSM, LACM
- Recorded in
- United States, Micronesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, Panama, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Actinopterygii
- Image
- Pterois antennata-3.jpg
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- Scorpaeniformes
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- Scorpaeniformes
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Scorpaeniformes
- taxon common name
- bodike
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Classification
- Timeline of genera
- See also
- Notes
- References
The Scorpaeniformes are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, encompassing species such as the stonefish, lionfish, and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei. It is one of the five largest orders of bony fishes by number of species, with over 1,320.
They are known as "mail-cheeked" fishes due to their distinguishing characteristic, the suborbital stay: a backwards extension of the third circumorbital bone (part of the lateral head/cheek skeleton, below the eye socket) across the cheek to the preoperculum, to which it is connected in most species.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scorpaeniformes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.