The Serraninae is a subfamily of

perciform Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means " ...

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es in the

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Serranidae The Serranidae are a large family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. The family contains about 450 species in 65 genera, including the sea basses and the groupers (subfamily Epinephelinae). Although many species are small, in some c ...

. It is made up of ten genera and 87 species.

Characters

The fishes in the subfamily Serraninae, the serranines, are small species within the family Serranidae. They generally have ten spines in their

dorsal fin A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom. Many species of animals possessing dorsal fins are not particularly closely related to each other, though through c ...

s and seven soft rays in their

anal fin Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as s ...

s. They are also characterised by the fin spines being unserrated. The genera within the Serraninae are separated by the counts of the soft rays in the dorsal fin.

Genera

The following genera are classified within the Serraninae: * '' Bullisichthys'' Rivas, 1971 * '' Centropristis'' Cuvier, 1829 * '' Chelidoperca'' Boulenger, 1895 * ''

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'' Steindachner, 1878 * '' Diplectrum'' Holbrook, 1855 * '' Dules'' Cuvier, 1829 * ''

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'' Gill, 1861 * '' Paralabrax'' Girard, 1856 * '' Parasphyraenops'' T.H. Bean, 1912 * '' Schultzea''

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, 1958 * '' Serraniculus'' Ginsburg, 1952 * '' Serranus'' Cuvier, 1816

Taxonomy

The

Anthiinae Anthias are members of the family Serranidae and make up the subfamily Anthiinae. Anthias make up a sizeable portion of the population of pink, orange, and yellow reef fishes seen swarming in most coral reef photography and film. The name Anth ...

are sometimes placed within the Serraninae but these fishes are mainly deepwater species and have a soft ray count in the

with a mode of eight. The subfamily is the most basal of the three subfamilies within the Serranidae, with the genus ''Centropristis'' being the most basal in the Serraninae.

References

{{Taxonbar, From=Q1303369 Serranidae Ray-finned fish subfamilies Taxa named by William John Swainson