Scorpaeniformes

The division of Scorpaeniformes into families is not settled; accounts range from 26 to 35 families. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the order as follows: : Deepwater scorpionfish, Setarches guentheri : Rose fish, Sebastes norvegicus : Longspine scorpionfish, Pontinus longispinis Order Scorpaeniformes • Suborder Scorpaenoidei • Superfamily Congiopodoidea • Family Aploactinidae Jordan & Starks, 1904 (Velvetfishes) • Family Congiopodidae Gill, 1889 (Racehorses, pigfishes or horsefishes) • Superfamily Pataecoidea • Family Pataecidae Gill, 1872 (Australian prowfishes) • Family Gnathanacanthidae Gill, 1892 (Red velvetfish) • Superfamily Scorpaenoidea • Family Eschmeyeridae Mandrytsa, 2001 (the cofish) • Family Scorpaenidae Risso, 1827 (Scorpionfishes) • Suborder Platycephaloidei • Superfamily Platycephaloidea • Family Bembridae Kaup, 1873 (Deepwater flatheads) • Family Platycephalidae Swainson, 1839 (True flatheads) • Family Hoplichthyidae Kaup, 1873 (Ghost flatheads) • Superfamily Trigloidea • Family Triglidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Common searobins) • Family Peristediidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Armored searobins) • Suborder Normanichthyiodei • Family Normanichthyidae Clark, 1837 (the Barehead scorpionfish or mote sculpin) • Suborder Zoarcoidei • Superfamily Anarhichadoidea • Family Anarhichadidae Bonaparte, 1835 (Wolffishes) • Family Cryptacanthodidae Gill, 1861 (Wrymouths) • Family Stichaeidae Gill, 1864 (Pricklebacks) • Family Pholidae Gill, 1893 (Gunnels) • Superfamily Bathymasteroidea • Family Bathymasteridae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Ronquils) • Family Ptilichthyidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Quillfish) • Superfamily Zoarcoidea • Family Eulophiidae H. M. Smith, 1902 (Spinous eelpouts) • Family Zoarcidae Swainson, 1839 (True Eelpouts) • Superfamily Zaproroidea • Family Scytalinidae Jordan & Starks, 1895 (Graveldivers) • Family Zaproridae Jordan, 1896 (Prowfishes) • Suborder Gasterosteoidei • Family Hypoptychidae Steindachner, 1880 (the Korean Sandlance) • Family Aulorhynchidae Gill (1861) (Tubesnouts) • Family Gasterosteidae Bonaparte, 1831 (Sticklebacks) • Suborder Cottoidei • Superfamily Anoplopomatoidea (Quast, 1965) • Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Blackcod) • Superfamily Zaniolepidoidea Shinohara, 1994 • Family Zaniolepididae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Combfishes) • Superfamily Hexagrammoidea Gill, 1889 • Family Hexagrammidae Jordan, 1888 (Greenlings) • Superfamily Trichodontoidea Nazarkin & Voskoboinikova, 2000 • Family Trichodontidae Bleeker, 1859 (Sandfishes) • Superfamily Cottoidea Gill, 1889 • Family Jordaniidae Jordan & Evermann, 1898 (Longfin sculpins) • Family Rhamphocottidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (Grunt sculpins) • Family Scorpaenichthyidae Jordan & Evermann, 1898 • Family Agonidae Swainson, 1839 (Poachers and searavens) • Family Cottidae Bonaparte, 1831 (Sculpins) • Family Psychrolutidae Günther, 1861 (Bighead sculpins) • Family Bathylutichthyidae Balushkin & Voskoboinikova, 1990 (Antarctic sculpins) • Superfamily Cyclopteroidea Gill, 1873 • Family Cyclopteridae Bonaparte, 1831 (lumpfishes or lumpsuckers) • Family Liparidae Gill, 1861 (Snailfishes) This classification is not settled, however, and some authorities classify these groupings largely within the Order Perciformes as the suborders Scorpaenoidei, Platycephaloidei, Triglioidei and Cottoidei, Cottodei including the infraorders Anoplopomatales, Zoarcales, Gasterosteales, Zaniolepidoales, Hexagrammales and Cottales. These infraorders largely correspond with the superfamilies in the Cottoidei set out in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World. ==Timeline of genera==