Pteroini

{{Short description|Tribe of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Lionfish.JPG

| image_caption = Pterois volitans

| taxon = Pteroini

| authority = Kaup, 1873{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp | year = 2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268078514 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 001–230 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}

| subdivision = See text

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| type_species = Scorpaena volitans

| type_species_authority = Bloch, 1787{{cite journal | author = Gilbert Whitley |year = 1939 | title =

Ichthyological genotypes: Desmarest's designations, 1874 | journal = Australian Zoologist | volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 222-226 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38926856#page/283/mode/1up}}

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Pteroini is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes, one of two tribes in the subfamily Scorpaeninae. This tribe includes the lionfishes, sawcheek scorpionfishes and turkeyfishes. The taxonomy of the scorpionfishes is in some flux; the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World treats this taxa as a tribe within the subfamily Scorpaeninae of the family Scorpaenidae within the order Scorpaeniformes,{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages= 468–475 |publisher=Wiley |ISBN= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }} while other authorities treat it as a subfamily within a reduced family Scorpaenidae within the suborder Scorpaenoidei,{{cite journal | author1 = Ricardo Betancur-R | author2 = Edward O. Wiley | author3 = Gloria Arratia | author4 = Arturo Acero | author5 = Nicolas Bailly | author6 = Masaki Miya | author7 = Guillaume Lecointre | author8 = Guillermo Ortí | display-authors = 3 | title =Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 17 | issue = 162 | year = 2017 | doi = 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3| doi-access = free | pmc = 5501477 }} or the superfamily Scorpaenoidea within the order Perciformes.{{cite journal | author = Hisashi Imamura | year = 2004 | title = Phylogenetic Relationships and New Classification of the Superfamily Scorpaenoidea (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) | journal = Species Diversity | volume = 9 | pages = 1–36 | url = https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/specdiv/9/1/9_KJ00004963844/_pdf/-char/en}}

==Genera==

The following genera are included in the tribe Pterioni, totalling 5 genera and 29 species:{{FishBase family | family = Scorpaenidae | month = August | year=2021}}{{Cof family | family = Scorpaenidae | access-date = 23 February 2022}}

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Image	Genus
175px	Brachypterois Fowler, 1938
175px	Dendrochirus Swainson, 1839
175px	Ebosia Jordan & Starks, 1904
175px	Parapterois Bleeker, 1876
175px	Pterois Oken, 1817