Scorpaenodes Bleeker [P.] 1857:371 Masc. Scorpaena polylepis Bleeker 1851. Type by monotypy. Also appeared in Bleeker 1857:452 [ref. 6220] with 2 included species. •Valid as Scorpaenodes Bleeker 1857 -- (Eschmeyer 1969:2 [ref. 7813], Eschmeyer 1969:85 [ref. 1274], Blanc & Hureau 1973:583 [ref. 7218], Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:314 [ref. 6441], Hureau & Litvinenko in Whitehead et al. 1986:1221 [ref. 13677], Eschmeyer 1986:471 [ref. 5652], Paxton et al. 1989:449 [ref. 12442], Poss 1999:2302 [ref. 24796], Mandrytsa 2001:251 [ref. 25636], Greenfield & Matsuura 2002:973 [ref. 26507], Poss & Eschmeyer 2003:1234 [ref. 27048], Allen et al. 2006:886 [ref. 29066], Motomura 2009:66 [ref. 30463], Motomura et al. 2009:75 [ref. 30328], Motomura et al. 2010:17 [ref. 30748], Poss et al. 2010:243 [ref. 30744], Motomura & Struthers 2015:1100 [ref. 34285], Motomura et al. 2016:345 [ref. 34411], Fricke et al. 2018:133 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:54 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:180 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:103 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Scorpaenodes Bleeker 1857. Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae.