Medialuna (fish)
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''Medialuna'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
sea chub 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 Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans u ...
s native to the eastern
Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...
.


Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * '' Medialuna ancietae'' Chirichigno F., 1987 * '' Medialuna californiensis'' ( Steindachner, 1876) (Halfmoon)


References

Kyphosidae * Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Taxa named by Bert Fesler {{Perciformes-stub