The Serraninae is a

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perciform Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order (biology), order or superorder of Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of a ...

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es in the

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Serranidae The Serranidae are a large family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. The family contains about 450 species in 65 genera, including the sea basses and the groupers (subfamily Epinephelinae). Although many species are small, in some case ...

. It is made up of ten genera and 87 species.

Characters

The fishes in the subfamily Serraninae, the serranines, are small species within the family Serranidae. They generally have ten spines in their

dorsal fin A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom. Many species of animals possessing dorsal fins are not particularly closely related to each other, though through conv ...

s and seven soft rays in their

anal fin Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as se ...

s. They are also characterised by the fin spines being unserrated. The genera within the Serraninae are separated by the counts of the soft rays in the dorsal fin.

Genera

The following genera are classified within the Serraninae: * '' Bullisichthys'' Rivas, 1971 * ''

Centropristis ''Centropristis'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes which is a member of the subfamily Serraninae of the Family (biology), family Serranidae, which includes the groupers and Anthiinae, anthias. There are five species distributed in the weste ...

'' Cuvier, 1829 * '' Chelidoperca'' Boulenger, 1895 * ''

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, 1878 * '' Diplectrum''

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, 1855 * '' Dules'' Cuvier, 1829 * ''

Hypoplectrus ''Hypoplectrus'' is a genus of fishes commonly known as hamlets, found mainly in coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, particularly around Florida and the Bahamas. They are a popular choice for hobbyist saltwater aquariums, and ...

'' Gill, 1861 * ''

Paralabrax ''Paralabrax'' is a genus of fishes in the family Serranidae. They are known commonly as rock basses.Pondella, D. J., et al. (2003)The phylogeny of ''Paralabrax'' (Perciformes: Serranidae) and allied taxa inferred from partial 16S and 12S mitocho ...

'' Girard, 1856 * '' Parasphyraenops'' T.H. Bean, 1912 * '' Schultzea'' Woods, 1958 * '' Serraniculus'' Ginsburg, 1952 * ''

Serranus ''Serranus'' is a genus of fish in the family Serranidae. It is one of five genera known commonly as the "Atlantic dwarf sea basses". These fish are hermaphrodites, each individual possessing functional male and female reproductive tissues. When ...

'' Cuvier, 1816

Taxonomy

The

Anthiinae Anthias are members of the family Serranidae and make up the subfamily Anthiinae. Anthias make up a sizeable portion of the population of pink, orange, and yellow reef fishes seen swarming in most coral reef photography and film. The name Anthi ...

are sometimes placed within the Serraninae but these fishes are mainly deepwater species and have a soft ray count in the

with a

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of eight. The subfamily is the most basal of the three subfamilies within the Serranidae, with the genus ''Centropristis'' being the most basal in the Serraninae.

References

{{Taxonbar, From=Q1303369 Serranidae Ray-finned fish subfamilies Taxa named by William John Swainson