Neomerinthe is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes.

They are found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.

Neomerinthe was first described as a genus in 1935 by the American ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler, Fowler was describing N. hemingwayi, with a type locality given as off Cape May, New Jersey, which he designated as the type species of a new genus.

[2] Neomerinthe has 12 species classified within it:[3] Neomerinthe scorpionfishes have an elongate and robust body> they do not have an occipital pit located o the rear of the eyes but there is a bony suborbital ridge under the eye which is armed with 3 spines.

The scales on the body are rough and the lateral line reaches the base of the caudal fin.