Trichiurus
Genus of ray-finned fishes
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Trichiurus is a genus of cutlassfishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae.
| Trichiurus Temporal range: | |
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| Trichiurus lepturus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Trichiuridae |
| Subfamily: | Trichiurinae |
| Genus: | Trichiurus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus 1758. | |
Species
Species within this genus include:[1]
- Trichiurus auriga, Klunzinger, 1884 (Pearly hairtail)
- Trichiurus australis Chakraborty, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2005 [2]
- Trichiurus brevis, Wang & You, 1992 (Chinese short-tailed hairtail)
- Trichiurus gangeticus, Gupta, 1966 (Ganges hairtail)
- Trichiurus japonicus, Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 (Japanese cutlassfish)
- Trichiurus lepturus, Linnaeus, 1758 (Largehead hairtail)
- Trichiurus margarites, Li, 1992
- Trichiurus nanhaiensis, Wang & Xu, 1992
- Trichiurus nickolensis, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2003 (Australian short-tailed hairtail)
- Trichiurus nitens, Garman, 1899
- Trichiurus russelli, Dutt & Thankam, 1966 (Short-tailed hairtail)
Extinct species
Extinct species within this genus include:
- †Trichiurus miocaenus Delfortrie, 1876
- †Trichiurus oshoshunensis White, 1926 [3]
- †Trichiurus plicidens Arambourg, 1952
Extinct species lived from the Eocene epoch to the Quaternary period, approximately from 48.6 to 0.012 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the Eocene sediments of Antarctica, Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States, in the Miocene of Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Panama, Slovakia and in the Quaternary of United States.[4][5]
