{{Short description|Family of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Late Paleocene|present}} | image = FMIB 49410 Game Fishes of North America (Pacific Ocean) -.jpeg | image_caption = ''Luvarus imperialis'' | taxon = Luvaridae | authority = Gill, 1885<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://www.researchgate.net/publication/268078514 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 001–230 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref> }} '''Luvaridae''' is a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Acanthuroidei in the order Acanthuriformes, of which they are the only pelagic members. The family has a single extant species, the widespread louvar (''Luvarus imperialis'') and a small number of known extinct species.

==Genera and species== The family Luvaridae contains the following taxa:<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase family|family=Luvaridae|month=February|year=2023}}</ref> * Genus ''Luvarus'' <small>Rafinesque, 1810</small> ** ''Luvarus imperialis'' <small>Rafinesque, 1810</small> ** {{extinct}} ''Luvarus necopinatus'' <small>(Danilchenko, 1968)</small> *{{extinct}} ''Aluvarus''? <small>Bannikov & Tyler, 1995</small> (disputed) ** {{extinct}} ''Aluvarus praeimperialis'' <small>(Arambourg, 1967)</small> * {{extinct}} ''Avitoluvarus'' <small>Bannikov & Tyler, 1995</small> ** {{extinct}} ''Avitoluvarus mariannae'' <small>Bannikov & Tyler, 1995</small> ** {{extinct}} ''Avitoluvarus dianae'' <small>Bannikov & Tyler, 1995</small> ** {{extinct}} ''Avitoluvarus eocaenicus'' <small>Bannikov & Tyler, 2001</small> * {{extinct}} ''Beerichthys'' <small>Casier, 1996</small> ** {{extinct}} ''Beerichthys ingens'' <small>Casier, 1996</small> * {{extinct}} ''Kushlukia'' <small>Danilchenko, 1968</small> ** {{extinct}} ''Kushlukia permira'' <small>Danilchenko, 1968</small>

{{extinct}} means extinct

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Category:Luvaridae Category:Marine fish families Category:Acanthuriformes families