Sea chub

Sea chubs
Girella fimbriata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Kyphosidae
T. N. Gill, 1893
Subfamilies

See text.

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]

Timeline

Quaternary Neogene Paleogene Holocene Pleist. Miocene Oligocene Eocene Paleocene Quaternary Neogene Paleogene Holocene Pleist. Miocene Oligocene Eocene Paleocene

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Kyphosidae" in FishBase. August 2013 version.
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