Sea chub

Not to be confused with Pilot fish.

The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue,^[2] are a family, Kyphosidae^[3], (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.^[4]

Sea chub
Kyphosus bigibbus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Centrarchiformes
Suborder:	Terapontoidei
Family:	Kyphosidae Jordan, 1887[1]
Genera
Kyphosus Neoscorpis

Genera

The following two genera are placed in this family:^[5]

• Kyphosidae Jordan, 1887^[1] (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.^[3]