Pteroinae

Pteroinae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes in the family Scorpaenidae. This tribe includes the lionfishes, sawcheek scorpionfishes, and turkeyfishes. Previously, the fifth edition of Fishes of the World treated this group as a tribe within the subfamily Scorpaeninae of the family Scorpaenidae within the order Scorpaeniformes,^[3] while other authorities treat it as a subfamily within a reduced family Scorpaenidae within the suborder Scorpaenoidei,^[4] or the superfamily Scorpaenoidea within the order Perciformes.^[5] Presently, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes treats it as a subfamily within Scorpaenidae.^[6]

Pteroinae Temporal range: Middle Eocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Pterois volitans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:	Pteroinae Kaup, 1873[1]
Type species
Scorpaena volitans Bloch, 1787[2]
Genera
See text

Genera

These seven genera are included in the subfamily Pteroinae, in 29 species:^[7]

Image	Genus
	Brachypterois Fowler, 1938
	Dendrochirus Swainson, 1839
	Ebosia Jordan & Starks, 1904
	Nemapterois Fowler, 1938
	Neochirus Chou, Liu & Liao, 2023
	Parapterois Bleeker, 1876
	Pterois Oken, 1817

The only fossil record of the family is †Eopterois,Schwarzhans, Stringer & Takeuchi, 2024 known from fossil otoliths from the Middle Eocene of Mississippi, US.^[8]