{{Short description|Family of fishes}} {{Distinguish|Pilot fish}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Kyphosus bigibbus.jpg | image_caption = ''Kyphosus bigibbus'' | taxon = Kyphosidae | authority = Jordan, 1887<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 = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Kyphosus'' * ''Neoscorpis'' | synonyms = }}
The '''sea chubs''', also known as '''rudderfish''' and '''pilot fish''' and in Hawaiian as '''''enenue''''' or '''''nenue''''',<ref>[https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=nenue hilo.hawaii.edu nenue, nenuwe Accessed 3 October 2021]</ref> are a family, '''Kyphosidae<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |last=Fricke |first=R. |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=W. N. |last3=Van der Laan |first3=R. |date=2025 |title=ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION |url=https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=California Academy of Sciences |language=en}}</ref>''', (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.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages= 440–441 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}</ref>
==Genera== The following two genera are placed in this family:<ref name="CofF22">{{Cof family|family=Kyphosidae|access-date=August 7, 2025}}</ref> * '''Kyphosidae''' <small>Jordan, 1887</small><ref name="VDLEF" /> (rudderfishes) ** Genus ''Kyphosus'' <small>Lacepède, 1801</small> ** Genus ''Neoscorpis'' <small>J.L.B. Smith, 1931</small> In the past, Girellidae, Scorpididae and Microcanthidae were treated as subfamilies within Kyphosidae. However, they are now treated as distinct families.'''<ref name=":13" />''' == References == {{Reflist}}
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Category:Sea chubs Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan