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Tetrarogidae
Sign in to saveTetraroginae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as waspfishes or sailback scorpionfishes, belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. These fishes are native to the Indian Ocean and the West Pacific. As their name suggests, waspfishes are often venomous; having poison glands on their spines. They are bottom-dwelling fish, living at depths to . These creatures usually live in hiding places on the sea bottom.
Species
wasp fishes
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderScorpaeniformes
- FamilyTetrarogidae
Les Tetrarogidae forment une famille de poissons de l'ordre des Scorpaeniformes. Cette famille n'est pas reconnue par ITIS qui place ses genres dans la famille des Scorpaenidae (ainsi que dans les Aploactinidae pour le genre Coccotropsis), mais est reconnue par FishBase et WoRMS.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 27
- Family
- Tetrarogidae
- Collections
- USNM, NMV, FMNH, WAM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Seychelles, Australia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Chesterfield(I.), Fiji, Wallis Et Futuna
Wikidata facts
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- Parent taxon
- Scorpaenoidei
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Tetraroginae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as waspfishes or sailback scorpionfishes, belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. These fishes are native to the Indian Ocean and the West Pacific. As their name suggests, waspfishes are often venomous; having poison glands on their spines. They are bottom-dwelling fish, living at depths to . These creatures usually live in hiding places on the sea bottom.
==Taxonomy and etymology== Tetraroginae, or Tetrarogidae, was first formally recognised as a taxonomic grouping in 1949 by the South African ichthyologist J.L.B. Smith. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World treats this as a subfamily of the scorpionfish family Scorpaenidae, however other authorities treat it as a valid family, the Tetrarogidae. A recent study placed the waspfishes into an expanded stonefish clade, within the family Synanceiidae, because all of these fish have a lachrymal sabre that can project a switch-blade-like mechanism out from underneath their eye.
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