Girellidae is a family of ray-finned fish in the order Centrarchiformes. They may be referred to as nibblers.Johnson, G. D. and R. A. Fritzsche. 1989. Graus nigra, an omnivorous girellid, with a comparative osteology and comments on relationships of the Girellidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 141: 1-27.
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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