Editing Cirrhitidae (section)

==Taxonomy==
The Cirrhitidae were first recognised as a family by the [[Scotland|Scots]]-born [[Australians|Australian]] [[naturalist]] [[William Sharp Macleay]] in 1841.<ref name = VDLEF/> It is one of the five constituent families in the [[Superfamily (biology)|superfamily]] Cirrhitoidea which is classified in the [[suborder]] [[Percoidei]] of the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Perciformes]]. Within the Cirrhitoidea, the Cirrhitidae is probably the most [[Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] family.<ref name = Nelson5>{{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=459 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2021-07-08 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> They have been placed in the order [[Centrarchiformes]] by some authorities, as part of the superfamily Cirrhitoidea,<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase family | family = Cirrhitidae | month= June |year = 2021}}</ref> however, the fifth edition of ''[[Fishes of the World]]'' does not recognise the Centrarchiformes.<ref name = Nelson5/> The name of the family is taken from that of the [[genus]] ''Cirrhitus'' which is derived from ''cirrhus'' meaning a "lock of hair" or "a barbel", thought to be a reference to lower, unbranched rays of the pectoral fins which [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède]] termed as "''barbillons''", which means "barbels"  in his [[Species description|description]] of the [[type species]] of the genus ''[[Cirrhinus pinnulatus|C. maculatus]]'', and which he thought to be "false" [[pectoral fins]]. Another possibility is that the name refers to [[cirrus (biology)|cirri]] extending from the tips of the spines in the [[dorsal fin]] spines, although Lacépède did not mention this feature.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/centrarchiformes/ | title =Order CENTRARCHIFORMES: Families CENTRARCHIDAE, ELASSOMATIDAE, ENOPLOSIDAE, SINIPERCIDAE, APLODACTYLIDAE, CHEILODACTYLIDAE, CHIRONEMIDAE, CIRRHITIDAE, LATRIDAE, PERCICHTHYIDAE, DICHISTIIDAE, GIRELLIDAE, KUHLIIDAE, KYPHOSIDAE, OPLEGNATHIDAE, TERAPONTIDAE, MICROCANTHIDAE and SCORPIDIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1= Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp |date = 25 February 2021 | access-date = 8 July 2021 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>
[[Image:Hawkfish.jpg|left|thumb|[[Paracirrhites forsteri|Black-sided hawkfish]] (''Paracirrhites forsteri'') from [[East Timor]]]]

===Genera===
The following 12 genera are classified within the Cirrhitidae, containing a total of 33 species:<ref name = Fishbase/><ref name = CofF>{{Cof family | family = Cirrhitidae | access-date = 8 July 2021}}</ref>

* ''[[Amblycirrhitus]]'' <small>[[Theodore Nicholas Gill|Gill]], 1862</small>
* ''[[Cirrhitichthys]]'' <small>[[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1857</small>
* ''[[Cirrhitops]]'' <small>[[J.L.B Smith]], 1951</small>
* ''[[Cirrhitus]]'' <small>[[Bernard Germain de Lacépède|Lacepède]], 1803</small>
* ''[[Cristacirrhitus]]'' <small>[[John Ernest Randall|Randall]], 2001</small>
* ''[[Cyprinocirrhites]]'' <small>[[Shigeho Tanaka|Tanaka]], 1917</small>
* ''[[Isocirrhitus]]'' <small>Randall, 1963</small>
* ''[[Itycirrhitus]]'' <small>Randall 2001</small>
* ''[[Neocirrhites]]'' <small>[[Francis de La Porte Castelnau|Castelnau]], 1873</small>
* ''[[Notocirrhitus]]'' <small>Randall, 2001</small>
* ''[[Oxycirrhites]]'' <small>Bleeker, 1857</small>
* ''[[Paracirrhites]]'' <small>Bleeker, 1874</small>