kyphosid

plural kyphosids

1. biologyAny of the perciform fish of the family Kyphosidae (the sea chubs).

   The kyphosids are today one of the most primitive percosid families.

   1967, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 135, page 50

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   A few apogonids are similarly shaped and pigmented, but none are as robust as kyphosids, and all have a prominent gas bladder and a divided dorsal fin with fewer elements. Heavily pigmented perciform larvae such as Iatids and toxotids have different skin meristics and smaller head spines than kyphosids.

   2000, H. J. Walker Jr., F. J. Neira, A. G. Miskiewicz, B. M. Carson-Ewart, “74: Kyphosidae (Rudderfishes, Sea Chubs)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: An identification guide to marine fish larvae, page 467

   Siganids and kyphosids are less speciose than scarines and acanthurids, and are more conservative in their feeding habitats (Choat 1991, Choat et al 2002).

   2009, Alison L. Green, David R. Bellwood, Monitoring Functional Groups of Herbivorous Reef Fishes as Indicators of Coral Reef Resilience, page 21