Order Scorpaeniformes
(scorpion fishes and sculpins)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

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  Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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  Eumetazoa (metazoans)
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  Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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  Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
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  Phylum Chordata (chordates)
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  Craniata (craniates)
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  Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
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  Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
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  Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
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  Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
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  Subclass Neopterygii
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  Infraclass Teleostei
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  Superorder Acanthopterygii
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  Order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion fishes and sculpins)
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  Suborder Anoplopomatoidei
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  Family Anoplopomatidae (sablefishes)
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  Suborder Congiopodoidei
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  Suborder Cottoidei (sculpins)
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  Family Abyssocottidae
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  Family Agonidae (alligatorfishes, poachers, and sea poachers)
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  Family Bathylutichthyidae
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  Family Comephoridae (oilfishes)
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  Family Cottidae (bullheads, scaleless sculpins, and sculpins)
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  Family Cottocomephoridae (baikal sculpins)
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  Family Cottunculidae (cottunculids and fatheads)
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  Family Cyclopteridae (lumpfishes and snailfishes)
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  Family Ereuniidae
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  Family Hemitripteridae
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  Family Icelidae (scaled sculpins)
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  Family Liparidae (snailfishes)
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  Family Psychrolutidae
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  Family Rhamphocottidae
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  Suborder Dactylopteroidei
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  Family Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)
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  Suborder Hexagrammoidei (greenlings)
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  Family Hexagrammidae (greenlings)
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  Family Zaniolepididae (combfishes)
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  Suborder Hoplichthyoidei
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  Suborder Normanichthyiodei
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  Family Normanichthyidae
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  Suborder Platycephaloidei
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  Family