Sea chub
| Sea chubs | |
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| Girella fimbriata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Kyphosidae T. N. Gill, 1893 |
| Subfamilies | |
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The sea chubs are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters.[1]
Subfamilies and genera
The four subfamilies with 14 genera in this family are:[1]
- Girellinae - nibblers
- Kyphosinae
- Genus Hermosilla
- Genus Kyphosus
- Genus Sectator
- Microcanthinae Johnson, 1984
- Genus Atypichthys
- Genus Microcanthus
- Genus Neatypus
- Genus Tilodon
- Scorpidinae
- Genus Bathystethus
- Genus Labracoglossa
- Genus Medialuna
- Genus Neoscorpis
- Genus Scorpis
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Atypicthys latus
Kyphosus cinerascens
Labracoglossa argentiventris
Scorpis aequipinnis
Timeline
References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Kyphosidae" in FishBase. August 2013 version.
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