Pterois Oken, 1817
- Dataset
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Teleostei
- order
- Scorpaeniformes
- family
- Scorpaenidae
- genus
- Pterois
Name
- Synonyms
- Pteropterus Swainson, 1839
- Homonyms
- Pterois Oken, 1817
- Common names
- butterfly-cods in English
- lionfishes in English
- turkeyfishes in English
- zebrafishes in English
Bibliographic References
- Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
- Hureau, J.-C., and Th. Monod, eds., 1973: null. Check-list of the fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (Clofnam), vol. 1. xxii + 683.
- Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
- Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: World Fishes Important to North Americans Exclusive of Species from the Continental Waters of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 21. 243.