''Girella'' is a

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sea chub 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 Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine ...

s mostly native to the

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with a smaller presence in the

Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...

oceans.

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Girella albostriata''

Steindachner Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner describ ...

, 1898 * '' Girella cyanea'' W. J. Macleay, 1881 (Blue drummer) * '' Girella elevata'' W. J. Macleay, 1881 (Black drummer, rock blackfish) * '' Girella feliciana'' H. W. Clark, 1938 * ''

Girella fimbriata ''Girella fimbriata'', the caramel drummer, is a species of sea chub endemic to the waters around the Kermadec Islands on reefs A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a ...

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, 1920) (Caramel drummer) * '' Girella freminvillii'' (

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, 1846) * '' Girella laevifrons'' (

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, 1846) * '' Girella leonina'' ( J. Richardson, 1846) (Kuromejina) * '' Girella mezina'' D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1907 (Okinamejina) * '' Girella nebulosa'' Kendall & Radcliffe, 1912 (Rapanui nibbler) * '' Girella nigricans'' ( Ayres, 1860) (Opaleye) * '' Girella punctata'' J. E. Gray, 1835 (Mejina) (Blackeye seabream) * '' Girella simplicidens'' R. C. Osburn &

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, 1916 (Gulf opal eye) * '' Girella stuebeli'' Troschel, 1866 * '' Girella tephraeops'' ( J. Richardson, 1846) (Rock blackfish) * ''

Girella tricuspidata The parore (''Girella tricuspidata'') also known as luderick, black bream or blackfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae which is found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean off Australia and New Zealand ...

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, 1824) (Parore, luderick) * '' Girella zebra'' ( J. Richardson, 1846) (Zebra fish) * '' Girella zonata'' Günther, 1859

Synonyms

The following list of genus names have all been synonymized with ''Girella'':Catalog of Fishes, California Academy of Sciences * ''Aplodon'' Thominot, 1883 * ''Camarina'' Ayres, 1860 * ''Doidyxodon'' Valenciennes, 1846 * ''Girellichthys'' Klunzinger, 1872 * ''Girellipiscis'' Whitley, 1931 * ''Girellops'' Regan, 1913 * ''Incisidens'' T. N. Gill, 1862 * ''Iredalella'' Whitley, 1931 * ''Melambaphes'' Günther, 1863 * ''Melanychthys'' Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 * ''Neotephraeops'' Castelnau, 1872 * ''Tephraeops'' Günther, 1859

Gallery

File:Onaga.jpg, '' Girella leonina'' File:Girellanigricans.jpg, '' Girella nigricans'' File:Gure.jpg, '' Girella punctata'' File:Girella tephraeops P1031231.JPG, '' Girella tephraeops'' File:Girella tricuspidata and Atypichthys strigatus.jpg, ''

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File:Girella zebra PC260079.JPG, '' Girella zebra'' File:Girella elevata.jpg, '' Girella elevata''

References

Kyphosidae Taxa named by John Edward Gray Marine fish genera Ray-finned fish genera {{Perciformes-stub