Most of the information on the scorpaeniform fishes is found in short technical articles in scientific journals. The following works are broad in nature but contain substantial information on members of this order. E.S. Herald, Living Fishes of the World (1961, reprinted 1972), is a well-illustrated book for the general reader; N.B. Marshall, The Life of Fishes (1965), contains some sections on the biology of scorpaeniforms; G.V. Nikolskii, Special Ichthyology, 2nd rev. ed. (1961; trans. of the 2nd Russian ed. of 1954), deals especially with species commercially important in the former Soviet Union; B.W. Halstead, Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World, vol. 3 (1970), provides information on the venom of these fishes and its effects. P.H. Greenwood et al., “Phyletic Studies of Teleostean Fishes, with a Provisional Classification of Living Forms,” Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 131: 339–455 (1966); and C.T. Regan, “The Osteology and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes of the Order Scleroparei,” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Series 8, 11:169–184 (1913), are rather technical, but important, contributions to the study of the scorpaeniforms.