Piper gurnard
| Piper gurnard | |
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| An illustration of Trigla lyra from an 1885 German book | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Triglidae |
| Genus: | Trigla Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species: | T. lyra
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| Binomial name | |
| Trigla lyra Linnaeus, 1758
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The piper gurnard, piper or lyre gurnard (Trigla lyra) is a fish species in the monotypic genus Trigla, part of the family Triglidae (the sea robins or gurnards).[1] It is called the piper or piper gurnard because of the sound it makes when caught.[2]
Its range covers the Eastern Atlantic from north of the British Isles and North Sea to Walvis Bay, Namibia, including Madeira and the Mediterranean Sea. The species is absent from the Black Sea.
See also[]
- List of prehistoric bony fish
- List of extant animal genera represented in the fossil record
References[]
- ^ "Family Triglidae (sea robin)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "piper". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). 2006.
External links[]
Media related to Trigla lyra at Wikimedia Commons- Fishbase
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Categories:
- Triglidae
- Fish of Africa
- Fish of the Atlantic Ocean
- Fish of Europe
- Fish of the Mediterranean Sea
- Fish of the North Sea
- Fish described in 1758
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Scorpaeniformes stubs