The waspfishes are a family, the Tetrarogidae, of scorpaeniform

Scorpaeniformes

Scorpaeniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, but it has also been called the Scleroparei.They are known as "mail-cheeked" fishes due to their distinguishing characteristic, the suborbital stay: a backwards extension of the third circumorbital bone across the cheek to the preoperculum, to which...

 fishes native to the Indian Ocean and the West Pacific. They are closely related to the scorpionfishes. As their name suggests, waspfishes are often venom

Venom

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ous. They are bottom-dwelling fish, living at depths of up to 300 metres (984.3 ft).

Classification

There are about forty species of waspfish, grouped into seventeen genera:

Family Tetrarogidae

• Genus Ablabys Kaup, 1873
• Genus Centropogon
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• Genus Coccotropsis Barnard. 1927
• Genus Cottapistus
• Genus Glyptauchen
• Genus Gymnapistes
• Genus Liocranium
• Genus Neocentropogon
• Genus Neovespicula
• Genus Notesthes
• Genus Ocosia
• Genus Paracentropogon
• Genus Pseudovespicula
• Genus Richardsonichthys
• Genus Snyderina
• Genus Tetraroge
• Genus Vespicula