Subfamily Scorpaeninae Risso 1827

Armigenae Latreille 1825:138 [ref. 31889] (family) Taenianotus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Les Scorpénides Risso 1827:109 [ref. 3757] (family) Scorpaena [latinized to Scorpaenini by Bonaparte 1831:156, 169 [ref. 4978] (subfamily); considered valid with this authorship by Gill 1893b:135 [ref. 26255], by Patterson 1993:642 [ref. 32940] and by Sheiko 2013:105 [ref. 32944] Article 11.7.2]

? Cataphracti Müller 1845:101 [ref. 32591] (family)? Scorpaena / Trigla [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

? Aspidoparei van der Hoeven 1855:392 [ref. 2182] (family)? Scorpaena [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Pterodichthyinae Fowler 1938a:51, 77 [ref. 1426] (subfamily) Pteroidichthys [as Pterodichthys, name must be corrected Article 32.5.3; stem corrected to Pteroidichthy- by Whitley 1954a:60 [ref. 4720], confirmed by Steyskal 1980:170 [ref. 14191] and by Imamura 2004:32 [ref. 29602]]

Taenianotinae Schultz in Schultz, Woods & Lachner 1966:20 [ref. 5366] (subfamily) Taenianotus