Girellidae is a family of
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
in the order
Centrarchiformes
Centrarchiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, previously included amongst the perciformes. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2023). FishBase. Centrarchiformes. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies. ...
. They may be referred to as nibblers.
[Johnson, G. D. and R. A. Fritzsche. 1989. Graus nigra, an omnivorous girellid, with a comparative osteology and comments on relationships of the Girellidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 141: 1-27.]
Species
The species in two genera are:
* Genus ''
Girella''
** ''
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 descri ...
, 1898)
** ''
Girella cyanea''
(Macleay, 1881) - New Zealand bluefish, blue drummer
** ''
Girella elevata''
(Macleay, 1881) - black drummer
** ''
Girella feliciana''
(Clark, 1938)
** ''
Girella fimbriata
''Girella fimbriata'', the caramel drummer, is a species of ray-finned fish endemism, endemic to the waters around the Kermadec Islands on reefs at a depth of about . This species can reach a length of fish measurement, TL.
References
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(McCulloch, 1920) - caramel drummer
** ''
Girella freminvillii''
(Valenciennes
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It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced ...
, 1846)
** ''
Girella laevifrons''
(Tschudi, 1846)
** ''
Girella leonina''
( Richardson, 1846)
** ''
Girella mezina''
(Jordan
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& Starks, 1907)
** ''
Girella nebulosa''
(Kendall & Radcliffe, 1912) - Rapa Nui nibbler
** ''
Girella nigricans''
( Ayres, 1860) - opaleye
** ''
Girella punctata''
(Gray
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, 1835) - largescale blackfish
** ''
Girella simplicidens''
(Osburn & Nichols, 1916) - gulf opaleye
** ''
Girella stuebeli''
(Troschel, 1866)
** ''
Girella tephraeops''
( Richardson, 1846) - rock blackfish
** ''
Girella tricuspidata''
( Quoy & Gaimard
Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.
Biography
Gaimard was born at Saint-Zacharie on January 31, 1793. He studied medicine at the naval medical school in Toulon, subsequent ...
, 1824) - parore
** ''
Girella zebra
''Girella zebra'', also known as zebrafish or stripey bream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub in the Family (biology), family Kyphosidae. It lives in the Indo-Pacific, where it is Endemism, endemic to the coastal waters of the s ...
''
( Richardson, 1846) - zebra fish, stripey bream
** ''
Girella zonata''
( Günther, 1859)
* Genus ''
Graus
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** ''
Graus nigra
''Graus nigra'' is a species of ray-finned fish endemic to the Pacific coast of South America, ranging from Valdivia in Chile to southern Peru. This species grows to a total length of and is popular as a game fish. This species is the only know ...
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(Philippi
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, 1887)
References
Centrarchiformes families
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