Bamber, 1915 (Red Sea to northern Australia and Melanesia) Glittering pipefish Halicampus nitidus (Guenther, 1873) (Northern Australia to the Ryukyu Islands and eastwards to Fiji) Spotted seahorse Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, 1852 (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Hawaiian and Society Islands) Shortnose pipefish Micrognathus andersonii (Bleeker, 1858) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and north to Japan) Short tailed pipefish Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus (Bleeker, 1857) (East Africa and the Red Sea to New Caledonia and north to Japan) Order Scorpaeniformes Family Dactylopteridae - Helmet gurnards Helmet gurnard Dactyloptena orientalis (Cuvier, 1829) (East Africa to Polynesia) Family Scorpaenidae – Scorpionfishes Cockatoo waspfish Ablabys taenianotus (Cuvier, 1829) (Andaman sea to Fiji and north to Japan) Dwarf lionfish Dendrochirus brachypterus (Cuvier, 1829) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and Tonga and north to the Philippines) Zebra lionfish Dendrochirus zebra (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) ( East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa) Caledonian stinger Inimicus caledonicus (Sauvage, 1878) (Andaman sea to Australia and New Caledonia) Mozambique scorpionfish Parascorpaena mossambica (Peters, 1855) (East Africa to Society Islands) Ragged-finned firefish Pterois antennata (Bloch, 1787) (East Africa to southeastern Polynesia) Red firefish, turkeyfish Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) (Western Australia and Malaysia to southeastern Polynesia and north to Japan) Whiteface waspfish Richardsonichthys leucogaster (Richardson, 1848) (India to northern Australia and Melanesia) Weedy scorpionfish Rhinopias aphanes Eschmeyer, 1973 (Northeastern Australia, New Caledonis, New Guinea and north to Japan) Longfingered scorpionfish Scorpaenodes albaiensis (Evermann and Seale, 1907) (Western Pacific to East Africa) Guam scorpionfish Scorpaenodes guamensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Pitcairn Group) Hairy scorpionfish Scorpaenodes hirsutus (Smith, 1957) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia) Shortfinned scorpionfish Scorpaenodes parvipinnis (Garrett, 1864) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia) Shore scorpionfish Scorpaenodes littoralis (Tanaka, 1917) (Indo-Pacific) Blotchfin scorpionfish Scorpaenodes varipinnis Smith, 1957 (East Africa to Micronesia) False stonefish Scorpaenopsis diabolus Cuvier, 1829 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia) Smallscale scorpionfish Scorpaenopsis oxycephala (Bleeker, 1849) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the central Pacific) Raggy scorpionfish Scorpaenopsis venosa (Cuvier, 1829) (East Africa to central Pacific) Yellow-spotted scorpionfish Sebastapistes cyanostigma (Bleeker, 1856) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa) Barchin scorpionfish Sebastapistes strongia (Cuvier, 1829) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Society Islands) Estuarine stonefish Synanceia horrida (Linnaeus, 1766) (India to Australia and north to China) Reef stonefish Synanceia verrucosa Bloch and