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

Triglinae was named in 1815 by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque[1] and is one of 3 subfamilies in the family Triglidae, part of the suborder Platycephaloidei within the order Scorpaeniformes.

Linnaeus realised they were different and classified Trigla as a gurnard, in contradiction of the ancient usage.

[3] The largest species is the tub gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna) which has a maximum published total length of 75.1 cm (29.6 in) while the smallest is the spotwing gurnard (Lepidotrigla spiloptera) which has a maximum published total length of 10 cm (3.9 in).

[6] Triglinae gurnards are widely distributed in the temperate and tropical seas around the world, although they are absent from the Western Atlantic Ocean.