| Sea chub | |
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| Girella fimbriata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Suborder: | Terapontoidei |
| Family: | Kyphosidae Jordan, 1887 |
| Subfamilies | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Scorpididae | |
The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue, are a family, Kyphosidae, (from Greek, kyphos = hump) of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters.
Subfamilies and genera
The four subfamilies with 12 genera in this family are:
- Girellinae Gill, 1862 (nibblers)
- Genus Girella Gray, 1835
- Genus Graus (genus) Philippi, 1887
- Kyphosinae Jordan, 1887 (rudderfishes)
- Microcanthinae Bleeker, 1876 (microanthines)
- Genus Atypichthys Günther, 1862
- Genus Microcanthus Swainson, 1839
- Genus Neatypus Waite, 1905
- Genus Tilodon Thominot, 1881
- Scorpidinae Günther, 1860 (halfmoons)
- Genus Bathystethus Gill, 1893
- Genus Labracoglossa Peters, 1866
- Genus Medialuna Jordan & Fesler, 1893
- Genus Neoscorpis J.L.B. Smith, 1931
- Genus Scorpis Valenciennes 1832
Alternative classification
Some authorities raise the subfamilies to full family status as the families Girellidae, Kyphosidae, Microacanthidae and Scorpididae and do not support the monophyly of the Kyphosidae as outlined above.
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Atypichthys latus
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Girella zebra
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Kyphosus cinerascens
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Labracoglossa argenteiventris
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Stripey (Microcanthus strigatus)
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Western footballer (Neatypus obliquus)
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Scorpis aequipinnis
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Kyphosus ocyurus
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Moonlighter (Tilodon sexfasciatus)
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Timeline
References
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- hilo.hawaii.edu nenue, nenuwe Accessed 3 October 2021
- Meigs, Helen, "Save a tuna, eat a vegetarian," Ocean Era, April 25, 2019 Accessed 3 October 2021
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 440–441. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Girellidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Graus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Kyphosidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Microcanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Scorpididae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2020.