Definition of "kyphosid"
kyphosid
noun
plural kyphosids
(ichthyology) Any of the perciform fish of the family Kyphosidae (the sea chubs).
Quotations
A few apogonids are similarly shaped and pigmented, but none are as robust as kyphosids, and all have a prominent gas bladder and a divided dorsal fin with fewer elements. Heavily pigmented perciform larvae such as Iatids and toxotids have different skin meristics and smaller head spines than kyphosids.
2000, H. J. Walker Jr., F. J. Neira, A. G. Miskiewicz, B. M. Carson-Ewart, “74: Kyphosidae (Rudderfishes, Sea Chubs)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: An identification guide to marine fish larvae, page 467
Siganids and kyphosids are less speciose than scarines and acanthurids, and are more conservative in their feeding habitats (Choat 1991, Choat et al 2002).
2009, Alison L. Green, David R. Bellwood, Monitoring Functional Groups of Herbivorous Reef Fishes as Indicators of Coral Reef Resilience, page 21