Sea chub

{{Short description|Family of fishes}}

{{Distinguish|Pilot fish}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Girella fimbriata (no common name).jpg

| image_caption = Girella fimbriata

| taxon = Kyphosidae

| authority = Jordan, 1887{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 }}

| subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies

| subdivision = See text

| synonyms = Scorpididae

}}

The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue,[https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=nenue hilo.hawaii.edu nenue, nenuwe Accessed 3 October 2021][http://ocean-era.com/blog/2019/4/24/save-a-tuna-eat-a-vegetarian Meigs, Helen, "Save a tuna, eat a vegetarian," Ocean Era, April 25, 2019 Accessed 3 October 2021] are a family, Kyphosidae, (from Greek, kyphos = hump) of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters.{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages= 440–441 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}