Biology:Scorpidinae

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Short description: Subfamily of fishes

Scorpidinae
Scorpis violacea (Blue maomao).jpg
The blue maomao, Scorpis violacea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Kyphosidae
Subfamily: Scorpidinae
Günther, 1860[1]
Genera

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The Scorpidinae, commonly known as halfmoons, knifefishes, and sweeps, are a subfamily of the family Kyphosidae, the sea chubs, a family of marine fish in the order Perciformes.[2] The Scorpidinae are distributed throughout the Pacific and east Indian Oceans, with species occurring in the waters of North America, South America, Asia, Australia , and numerous islands. Most inhabit the continental shelf in shallow rock and kelp reefs and deeper offshore reefs, whilst others are found well offshore in a pelagic setting. Most of the Scorpidinae are carnivorous, taking a variety of small crustaceans, although some are partly herbivorous. A number of the larger species are fished commercially and recreationally, and are considered good table fish.

Classification

Fishbase lists 12 species in 5 genera under the subfamily Scorpidinae, the genera are set out below[3]

The 5th edition of Fishes of the World includes Neoscorpis within the subfamily Scorpidinae[2] but other authorities place it within the Kyphosinae, although these authorities usually classify the subfamilies of the Kyphosidae as families.[4]

References

  1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001–230. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 440–441. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/. 
  3. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Kyphosidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  4. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Scorpdidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Scorpdidae. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1401146 entry