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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Kyphosidae

Sea Chubs

WoRMS 125540ITIS 169503GBIF 4279key worms:125540
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2026-08-05: itis_id 169503 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · perevolotsky · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Microcanthus strigatus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Kyphosidae
Photo · Ian Banks · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue, are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Centrarchiformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters.W CalCOFI holds 297 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

297
observations
297
records
11
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 11 obs · 11 events · 1975–2006 · larva
    name used: Kyphosidae Sea Chubs · code 660

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125540%22