Cutlassfish
| Cutlassfish | |
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| Channel scabbardfish (Evoxymetopon taeniatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Trichiuridae Rafinesque, 1810 |
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See text for species. | |
The cutlassfishes are about 45 species of predatory fish in the family Trichiuridae of the order Perciformes found in seas throughout the world. Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, giving rise to their name. They have reduced or absent pelvic and caudal fins, giving them an eel-like appearance, and large fang-like teeth.[1]
Some of the species are known as scabbardfishes or hairtails; others are called frostfishes because they appear in late autumn and early winter, around the time of the first frosts.
Classification[]
This list of species follows FishBase:[2]
- Subfamily Aphanopidinae Gill, 1863
- Genus Aphanopus
- Genus Benthodesmus Goode & Bean, 1882
- , Clarke, 1879 (Elongate frostfish)
- , Parin & Becker, 1970 (Bigeye frostfish)
- , Parin, 1976 (Neglected frostfish)
- , Parin & Becker, 1970 (Sparse-rayed frostfish)
- Benthodesmus pacificus, Parin & Becker, 1970 (North Pacific frostfish)
- , Parin, 1978 (Papuan frostfish)
- , Steindachner, 1891 (Simony's frostfish)
- , Parin, 1976 (Philippine frostfish)
- Benthodesmus tenuis, Günther, 1877 (Slender frostfish)
- , Parin & Becker, 1970 (Tucker's frostfish)
- , Parin & Becker, 1970 (Vityaz' frostfish)
- Subfamily Lepidopodinae, Gill, 1863
- Genus Assurger
- Assurger anzac Alexander, 1917 (Razorback scabbardfish)
- Genus Eupleurogrammus
- Genus Evoxymetopon
- Genus Lepidopus
- , Parin & Collette, 1993 (Crested scabbardfish)
- , Parin & Mikhailin, 1982 (Hawaiian ridge scabbardfish)
- Lepidopus caudatus, (Euphrasen, 1788) (Silver scabbardfish)
- , Parin & Mikhailin, 1981 (Doubtful scabbardfish)
- , Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 (Fitch's scabbardfish)
- , Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 (Ghost scabbardfish)
- Genus Assurger
- Subfamily Trichiurinae Rafinesque, 1810
- Genus Demissolinea
- Demissolinea novaeguineensis, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2003 (New Guinean hairtail)
- Genus Lepturacanthus
- , (Gupta, 1966) (Coromandel hairtail)
- (Bleeker, 1860)
- Lepturacanthus savala, (Cuvier, 1829) (Savalani hairtail)
- Genus Tentoriceps
- , (Klunzinger, 1884) (Crested hairtail)
- Genus Trichiurus
- , Klunzinger, 1884 (Pearly hairtail)
- Chakraborty, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2005[5]
- , Wang & You, 1992 (Chinese short-tailed hairtail)
- , Gupta, 1966 (Ganges hairtail)
- Trichiurus lepturus, Linnaeus, 1758 (Largehead hairtail)
- , Li, 1992
- , Wang & Xu, 1992
- , Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2003 (Australian short-tailed hairtail)
- , Dutt & Thankam, 1966 (Short-tailed hairtail)
- Genus Demissolinea
Timeline of genera[]
References[]
- ^ Johnson, G.D.; Gill, A.C. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 190. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Trichiuridae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
- ^ Chakraborty, Yoshino & Iwatsuki (2006). "A new species of scabbardfish, Evoxymetopon macrophthalmus (Scombroidei: Trichiuridae), from Okinawa, Japan". Ichthyological Research. 53 (2): 137ff. doi:10.1007/s10228-005-0319-x.
- ^ Fricke, R., Golani, D. & Appelbaum-Golani, B. (2014): Evoxymetopon moricheni, a new cutlassfish from the northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Trichiuridae). Ichthyological Research 61 (3): 293-297.
- ^ Anirban Chakraborty; Andi Iqbal Burhanuddin; Yukio Iwatsuki (2005). "A new species, Trichiurus australis (Perciformes: Trichiuridae), from Australia". Ichthyological Research. 52 (2): 165–170. doi:10.1007/s10228-005-0268-4.
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
External links[]
Categories:
- Trichiuridae
- Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque