family Kyphosidae


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Noun1.family Kyphosidae - sea chubs
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
sea chub - schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
genus Kyphosus, Kyphosus - type genus of the Kyphosidae
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Luderick Girella tricuspidata (Family Kyphosidae) is a common and edible angling fish in NSW, though not mentioned by the 1880 FIC.