Citharinidae

{{Short description|Family of fishes}} {{Redirect-distinguish|Lutefish|lutefisk}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Citharinus latus n90 w1150.jpg | image_caption = ''Citharinus latus'' | taxon = Citharinidae | authority = Günther, 1864<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text }}

The '''Citharinidae''', the '''lutefishes''', are a small family of characiform fish. They are freshwater fish native to Africa, and are sufficiently abundant to be significant food fishes.<ref name=EoF/>

They are deep-bodied, silvery fish, measuring up to {{convert|84|cm|in|abbr=on}} in length and weighing up to {{convert|18|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{FishBase family | family = Citharinidae| month = October | year = 2011}}</ref> They are filter feeders.<ref name=EoF>{{cite book |editor=Paxton, J.R. |editor2=Eschmeyer, W.N.|author1=Weitzman, S.H. |author2=Vari, R.P.|year=1998|title=Encyclopedia of Fishes|publisher= Academic Press|location=San Diego|page= 101|isbn= 0-12-547665-5}}</ref>

==Genera== The family contains three genera:<ref name = "Cof family>{{Cof family|family=Citharinidae|access-date=3 June 2025}}</ref> *''Citharidium'' Boulenger, 1902 (monotypic) *''Citharinops'' Daget, 1962 (monotypic) *''Citharinus'' Cuvier, 1817 (6 species)

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:Citharinidae * Category:Characiformes families Category:Taxa named by Albert Günther