Sebastolobinae

Sebastolobinae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Perciformes.^[1] Many species have the common name thornyhead.

Sebastolobinae
Longspine thornyhead (Sebastolobus altivelis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:	Sebastolobinae Matsubara, 1943
Genera
Adelosebastes Sebastolobus Trachyscorpia

Taxonomy

Sebastolobini was first formally recognised as a grouping in 1943 by the Japanese ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara.^[2] More recently, authorities like Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes, who treat the clade referred to as Sebastinae as a family, treat the Sebastolobini as a subfamily and call this grouping Sebastolobinae.^[3][1]

Genera

Sebastolobinae contains three genera with 11 species, most in Trachyscorpia.^[4][3]

• Adelosebastes Eschmeyer, T. Abe & Nakano, 1979
• Sebastolobus Gill, 1881
• Trachyscorpia Ginsburg, 1953