The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue,[1] are a family, Kyphosidae[2] , (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.[3]
The following two genera are placed in this family:
In the past, Girellidae, Scorpididae and Microcanthidae were treated as subfamilies within Kyphosidae. However, they are now treated as distinct families.
