Girellinae

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Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Rank Subfamily		Scientific name Girellinae Higher classification Sea chub Order Perciformes

Lower classifications Smallscale blackfish, Girella, Parore

The Girellinae are a subfamily of fish in the sea chub family. They may be referred to as nibblers.

Species

The species in two genera are:

Genus Girella

Girella albostriata (Steindachner, 1898)

Girella cyanea (Macleay, 1881) - New Zealand bluefish, blue drummer

Girella elevata (Macleay, 1881) - black drummer

Girella feliciana (Clark, 1938)

Girella fimbriata (McCulloch, 1920) - caramel drummer

Girella freminvillii (Valenciennes, 1846)

Girella laevifrons (Tschudi, 1846)

Girella leonina (Richardson, 1846)

Girella mezina (Jordan & Starks, 1907)

Girella nebulosa (Kendall & Radcliffe, 1912) - Rapa Nui nibbler

Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860) - opaleye

Girella punctata (Gray, 1835) - largescale blackfish

Girella simplicidens (Osburn & Nichols, 1916) - gulf opaleye

Girella stuebeli (Troschel, 1866)

Girella tephraeops (Richardson, 1846) - rock blackfish

Girella tricuspidata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) - parore

Girella zebra (Richardson, 1846) - zebra fish, stripey bream

Girella zonata (Günther, 1859)

Genus Graus

Graus nigra (Philippi, 1887)

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