Pontinus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Pontinus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Pontinus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pontinus
Pontinus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. The scorpionfishes in this genus are distributed in the tropical and warm temperate parts Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
...Pontinus in languages:
- Chinese
- 海鮋屬
- Chinese
- 紅體海鮋
- Japanese
- ヒオドシ属
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Pontinus accraensis
- Pontinus castor
- Pontinus clemensi
- Pontinus corallinus
- Pontinus dubius
- Pontinus furcirhinus
- Pontinus helena
- Pontinus kuhlii
- Pontinus leda
- Pontinus longispinis
- Pontinus macrocephalus
- Pontinus nematophthalmus
- Pontinus nigerimum
- Pontinus nigropunctatus
- Pontinus rathbuni
- Pontinus rhodochrous
- Pontinus sierra
- Pontinus strigatus
- Pontinus tentacularis
- Pontinus vaughani