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Sea Chubs
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Sea Chubs

Kyphosidae

The sea chubs are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 12 known species

Chubs

genusKyphosus

Stone Breams

genusNeoscorpis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49688.