Xiphisterinae
{{Short description|Subfamily of fish}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = FMIB 39427 Xiphidion rupestre (Jordan & Gilbert) Type.jpeg
| image_caption = Xiphidion rupestre
| taxon = Xiphisterinae
| authority = Jordan & Evermann 1898{{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://www.researchgate.net/publication/268078514 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 001–230 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
| subdivision_ref = {{cite WoRMS |title= Xiphisterinae |id= 267121 |access-date=15 August 2022}}
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Xiphisterinae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes, classified within the family Stichaeidae, the pricklebacks or shannies. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.{{Cof family|family= Xiphisterinae |access-date=15 August 2022}}
Genera
The subfamily contains the following genera († means extinct): {{cite journal | author1 = Mecklenburg, C. W. | author2 = B. A. Sheiko | name-list-style = and | year = 2004 | title = Family Stichaeidae Gill 1864 — pricklebacks | journal = California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes | volume = 35 | url = https://www.calacademy.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/stichaeidae.pdf}}
{{Linked genus list
| Alectrias | Jordan & Evermann, 1898
| Alectridium | Gilbert & Burke, 1912
| Anoplarchus | Gill, 1861
| Cebidichthys | Ayres, 1855
| Dictyosoma | Temminck & Schlegel, 1845
| Esselenichthys | Anderson, 2003
| † Nvichia | Nazarkin, 1998 {{cite journal | author = Mikhail Valerievich Nazarkin | year = 1998 | title = New Stichaeid Fishes (Stichaeidae, Perciformes) from Miocene of Sakhalin | journal = Journal of Ichthyology | volume = 38 | issue =4 | pages = 279–291 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273761112_New_Stichaeid_Fishes_Stichaeidae_Perciformes_from_Miocene_of_Sakhalin}}
| Phytichthys | Hubbs, 1923
| Pseudalectrias | Lindberg, 1938
| Xiphister | Jordan, 1880
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References
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Category:Taxa described in 1898