The Girellinae are a subfamily of fish in the sea chub family. They may be referred to as nibblers.[2][3]
| Girellinae | |
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| Girella fimbriata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Kyphosidae |
| Subfamily: | Girellinae Gill, 1862[1] |
| Genera | |
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2, see text | |
Species edit
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
- Graus nigra (Philippi, 1887)
References edit
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ 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.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 440. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.