䱵科为辐鳍鱼纲鲈形目的一个科。

本科鱼类分布于全球三大洋之热带及副热带海域。

The hawkfishes are strictly tropical, perciform marine fishes of the family Cirrhitidae associated with the coral reefs of the western and eastern Atlantic and Indo-Pacific. They share many morphological features with the scorpionfish of the family Scorpaenidae.