Sea chub
Family of fishes
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 Centrarchiformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters.
01Genera
The following two genera are placed in this family:
- Kyphosidae Jordan, 1887 (rudderfishes)
- Genus Kyphosus Lacepède, 1801
- Genus Neoscorpis J. L. B. Smith, 1931
In the past, Girellidae, Scorpididae and Microcanthidae were treated as subfamilies within Kyphosidae. However, they are now treated as distinct families.
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- Kyphosus bigibbus.jpg by Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR, Public domain
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