{{Short description|Subfamily of fish}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = FMIB 39427 Xiphidion rupestre (Jordan & Gilbert) Type.jpeg | image_caption = ''Xiphidion rupestre'' | taxon = Xiphisterinae | authority = Jordan & Evermann 1898<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> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | subdivision_ref = <ref>{{cite WoRMS |title= Xiphisterinae |id= 267121 |access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref> }}
'''Xiphisterinae''' is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes, classified within the family Stichaeidae, the '''pricklebacks''' or '''shannies'''. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family|family= Xiphisterinae |access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref>
==Genera== The subfamily contains the following genera († means extinct): <ref name = M&S2004>{{cite journal | author1 = Mecklenburg, C. W. | author2 = B. A. Sheiko | name-list-style = and | year = 2004 | title = Family Stichaeidae Gill 1864 — pricklebacks | journal = California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes | volume = 35 | url = https://www.calacademy.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/stichaeidae.pdf}}</ref> {{Linked genus list | Alectrias | Jordan & Evermann, 1898 | Alectridium | Gilbert & Burke, 1912 | Anoplarchus | Gill, 1861 | Cebidichthys | Ayres, 1855 | Dictyosoma | Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 | Esselenichthys | Anderson, 2003 | † Nvichia | Nazarkin, 1998 <ref name = Nazarkin>{{cite journal | author = Mikhail Valerievich Nazarkin | year = 1998 | title = New Stichaeid Fishes (Stichaeidae, Perciformes) from Miocene of Sakhalin | journal = Journal of Ichthyology | volume = 38 | issue =4 | pages = 279–291 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273761112_New_Stichaeid_Fishes_Stichaeidae_Perciformes_from_Miocene_of_Sakhalin}}</ref> | Phytichthys | Hubbs, 1923 | Pseudalectrias | Lindberg, 1938 | Xiphister | Jordan, 1880 }}
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Category:Stichaeidae Category:Xiphisterinae Category:Taxa described in 1898 Category:Fish subfamilies Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Category:Taxa named by Barton Warren Evermann