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Sea chub

family of fishes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ1130631 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

Editorial summary

“Sea chub” enters the record as family of fishes. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what chub, family and fishes can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1801, 1931—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around chub, family and fishes.
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“Sea chub” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, chub, family and fishes provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1130631. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1887, 1801 and 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sea chub” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.