Sea chub

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Sea chub
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Girella fimbriata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Centrarchiformes
Suborder: Terapontoidei
Family: Kyphosidae
Jordan, 1887 [1]
Subfamilies

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Synonyms

Scorpididae

The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue, [2] [3] 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. [4]

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Subfamilies and genera

The four subfamilies with 12 genera in this family are:

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. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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. ↑ hilo.hawaii.edu nenue, nenuwe Accessed 3 October 2021
  3. ↑ Meigs, Helen, "Save a tuna, eat a vegetarian," Ocean Era, April 25, 2019 Accessed 3 October 2021
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Graus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  7. 1 2 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.
  8. 1 2 3 4 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.
  9. 1 2 3 4 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.
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