see text Pterygotriglinae is a subfamily of demersal, marine ray-finned fishes, part of the family Triglidae, the gurnards and searobins.

Pterygotriglinae was first proposed as a taxonomic grouping by the American zoologist Henry Weed Fowler in 1938 in his description of the fishes collected by United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer USFS Albatross II.

[5] The common name used for most of the species classified within this subfamily is gurnard which derives from the croaking sound they create when caught.

[6] Pterygotriglinae contains the following 2 genera:[7] Pterygotriglinae gurnards are separated from the other Triglid subfamilies by having 27 vertebrae, the lateral line ends at caudal base and does not fork on the caudal fin, there is no basihyal and there is no expansion of upper end of the lower pterygiophores or any broadening of only those adjacent to the spiny dorsal fin.

[4] The largest species is the latchet (Pterygotrigla polyommatai) which has a maximum published total length of 62 cm (24 in) and the smallest is the Pterygotrigla hafizi at 8.9 cm (3.5 in) in maximum published total length.