Girellidae

Girellidae
Girella fimbriata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Centrarchiformes
Suborder:	Terapontoidei
Family:	Girellidae Gill, 1862 [1]
Genera
2, see text

Girellidae is a family of ray-finned fish in the order Centrarchiformes. They may be referred to as nibblers. ^{[2] [3]}

Species

The species in two genera are:

• Genus Girella
  • Girella albostriata (Steindachner, 1898)
  • Girella cyanea (Macleay, 1881) - New Zealand bluefish, blue drummer
  • Girella elevata (Macleay, 1881) - black drummer
  • Girella feliciana (Clark, 1938)
  • Girella fimbriata (McCulloch, 1920) - caramel drummer
  • Girella freminvillii (Valenciennes, 1846)
  • Girella laevifrons (Tschudi, 1846)
  • Girella leonina (Richardson, 1846)
  • Girella mezina (Jordan & Starks, 1907)
  • Girella nebulosa (Kendall & Radcliffe, 1912) - Rapa Nui nibbler
  • Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860) - opaleye
  • Girella punctata (Gray, 1835) - largescale blackfish
  • Girella simplicidens (Osburn & Nichols, 1916) - gulf opaleye
  • Girella stuebeli (Troschel, 1866)
  • Girella tephraeops (Richardson, 1846) - rock blackfish
  • Girella tricuspidata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) - parore
  • Girella zebra (Richardson, 1846) - zebra fish, stripey bream
  • Girella zonata (Günther, 1859)
• Genus Graus
  • Graus nigra (Philippi, 1887)

References

1. 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.
2. Johnson, G. D. and R. A. Fritzsche. 1989. Graus nigra, an omnivorous girellid, with a comparative osteology and comments on relationships of the Girellidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 141: 1-27.
3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 440. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2020-04-22.