Talk:Scorpaenidae

Subfamilies[edit]

...Fishes of the World recognizes 10 subfamilies with a total of 388 species, while (as of 2003) FishBase follows Eschmeyer and has 3 subfamilies and less than 200 species... The article actually has 21 subfamilies - which authority are we following?

According to WikiProject Fishes, Fishbase is the authority to follow. If you disagree or want to raise a very valid issue, you may want to consider posting your question on Wikiproject Fishes talk page. If fishbase is off by 188 species, that would certainly be a concern. On the other hand, FOW may have them misclassified. At any rate, you'd probably get an answer there. And by the way, I'd be curious too. Cheers! Jnpet 01:00, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the article - 25 genera, 200 species - subfamilies should have read genera. There were 4 genera missing. Not too worried about what other authorities are doing if we follow FishBase. GrahamBould

Article should be titled Scorpionfish[edit]

Per WP:COMMONNAME, commonly recognised name should be used. Someone changed it to Scorpaenidae because it has other common names, but that is an entirely wrong reason, because scorpionfish is the common name most usually used. That there are other names is irrelevant to how the article should be titled. Hzh (talk) 10:35, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]