Sea chub
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Sea chubs
Girella fimbriata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Kyphosidae
Subfamilies
See text.

The sea chubs are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes.

Subfamilies

• Girellinae - nibblers
• Kyphosinae
• Microcanthinae Johnson, 1984
• Scorpidinae

References

• "Kyphosidae". FishBase. Ed. Rainer Froese and Daniel Pauly. March 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.