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]

Timeline

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