sea chub


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Related to sea chub: Kyphosidae
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Noun1.sea chub - schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
family Kyphosidae, Kyphosidae - sea chubs
Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix, rudderfish - food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
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In total, the assemblage comprised 20 discrete taxa (based on family-level or higher) including all those reported earlier (Fitzpatrick and Kataoka 2005:6), the exception being a single sea chub from Layer 7 in E2/S2.
In general, the number of taxa at the family level did not increase, with the exception of a single Kyphosidae (sea chub) specimen (raising the total number from 19 to 20).
Jacks (Carangidae), grunts (Haemulidae), sea chubs, and scorpionfishes are absent from the Phase IV sample.
Temporal trends in prehistoric fishing in Palau, Micronesia over the last 1500 years

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