The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue, are a family, Kyphosidae, (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.

Genera

The following two genera are placed in this family:

Kyphosidae Jordan, 1887 (rudderfishes)

• Genus Kyphosus Lacepède, 1801

• Genus Neoscorpis J. L. B. Smith, 1931

In the past, Girellidae, Scorpididae and Microcanthidae were treated as subfamilies within Kyphosidae. However, they are now treated as distinct families.

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