Scatophagidae

Scatophagidae, the scats are a small family of ray-finned fishes in the order Acanthuriformes. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region but one species has been introduced elsewhere.

==Taxonomy== Scatophagidae was first formally described as a family in 1883 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill. They are classified in the superfamily Siganiodea, along with the rabbitfishes of the family Siganidae, within the suborder Percoidei in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World. Other workers have classified them with the surgeonfishes in the order Acanthuriformes or as incertae sedis within the series Eupercaria. The name of the family comes from its type genus Scatophagus and this is a compound of skatos meaning "dung" and phaga which means to eat, a reference to its species' purported taste for human faeces.