Trichiurus
| Trichiurus Temporal range:
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| Trichiurus lepturus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Trichiuridae |
| Subfamily: | Trichiurinae |
| Genus: | Trichiurus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus 1758.
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Trichiurus is a genus of cutlassfishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae.
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]
References
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Trichiurus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ^ Anirban Chakraborty; Andi Iqbal Burhanuddin; Yukio Iwatsuki (2005). "A new species, Trichiurus australis (Perciformes: Trichiuridae), from Australia". Ichthyological Research. 52 (2): 165–170. Bibcode:2005IchtR..52..165C. doi:10.1007/s10228-005-0268-4. S2CID 6377460.
- ^ "Trichiurus". The dinosaur fan. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
- ^ "Trichiurus Linnaeus 1758 (ray-finned fish)". The Paleobiology Database.
- ^ Douglas J. Long (January 1991). "Fossil cutlassfish (Perciformes: Trichiuridae) teeth from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula". Paleobios. 13: 3–6.
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560.
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