Trichiurus
| Trichiurus Temporal range: Eocene - Recent | |
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| Trichiurus lepturus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Trichiuridae |
| Genus: | Trichiurus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Trichiurus is a genus of cutlassfishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae.
Species
Species within this genus include: [1]
- Pearly hairtail, T. auriga Klunzinger, 1884
- Trichiurus australis Chakraborty, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2005.[2]
- Chinese short-tailed hairtail, T. brevis Wang & You, 1992
- Ganges hairtail, T. gangeticus Gupta, 1966
- Largehead hairtail, T. lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
- Trichiurus margarites Li, 1992
- Trichiurus nanhaiensis Wang & Xu, 1992
- Australian short-tailed hairtail, T. nickolensis Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2003
- Short-tailed hairtail, T. russelli Dutt & Thankam, 1966
Fossil teeth of T. oshoshunensis from Khouribga (Morocco.)
Extinct species
Extinct species within this genus include:
- Trichiurus oshoshunensis Casier 1958 [3]
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]
References
- ↑ Fishbase
- ↑ Anirban Chakraborty, Andi Iqbal Burhanuddin and 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.
- ↑ The dinosaur fan
- ↑ Fossilworks
- ↑ Douglas J. Long FOSSIL CUTLASSFISH (PERCIFORMES: TRICHIURIDAE) TEETH FROM THE LA MESETA FORMATION (EOCENE), SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560.
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