Biology:Girellinae

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Short description: Subfamily of fishes

Girellinae
Girella fimbriata (no common name).jpg
Girella fimbriata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Kyphosidae
Subfamily: Girellinae
Gill, 1862[1]
Genera

2, see text

The Girellinae are a subfamily of fish in the sea chub family. They may be referred to as nibblers.[2][3]

Species

The species in two genera are:

  • Genus Girella
    • Girella albostriata (Steindachner, 1898)
    • Girella cyanea (Macleay, 1881) - New Zealand bluefish, blue drummer
    • Girella elevata (Macleay, 1881) - black drummer
    • Girella feliciana (Clark, 1938)
    • Girella fimbriata (McCulloch, 1920) - caramel drummer
    • Girella freminvillii (Valenciennes, 1846)
    • Girella laevifrons (Tschudi, 1846)
    • Girella leonina (Richardson, 1846)
    • Girella mezina (Jordan & Starks, 1907)
    • Girella nebulosa (Kendall & Radcliffe, 1912) - Rapa Nui nibbler
    • Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860) - opaleye
    • Girella punctata (Gray, 1835) - largescale blackfish
    • Girella simplicidens (Osburn & Nichols, 1916) - gulf opaleye
    • Girella stuebeli (Troschel, 1866)
    • Girella tephraeops (Richardson, 1846) - rock blackfish
    • Girella tricuspidata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) - parore
    • Girella zebra (Richardson, 1846) - zebra fish, stripey bream
    • Girella zonata (Günther, 1859)
  • Genus Graus

References

  1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001–230. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480. 
  2. Johnson, G. D. and R. A. Fritzsche. 1989. Graus nigra, an omnivorous girellid, with a comparative osteology and comments on relationships of the Girellidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 141: 1-27.
  3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 440. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1963491 entry