Sebastini is a
tribe
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of marine
ray-finned fish
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The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...
es belonging to the
subfamily Sebastinae of the
family
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Scorpaenidae in the
order
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Scorpaeniformes
The Scorpaeniformes are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, including the lionfishes and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei. It is one of the five largest orders of bony fishes by number of species, with over 1,320.
They are k ...
. Many species have the common name thornyhead.
Taxonomy
Sebastolobini was first formally recognised as a grouping in 1943 by the Japanese
ichthyologist
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Kiyomatsu Matsubara
was a Japanese marine biologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
Born Kiyomatsu Sakamoto in Hyogo Prefecture, Kiyomatsu Matsubara was the first professor of the Department of Fisheries of the University of Kyoto and is considered to be the fo ...
.
Authorities who treat the clade referred to as Sebastinae as a family treat the Sebastolobini as a subfamily and call this grouping Sebastolobinae.
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Genera
Sebastini contains three