Trichiurus is a genus of cutlassfishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae.
| Trichiurus Temporal range:
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| Trichiurus lepturus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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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Species
editSpecies 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 lepturus, Linnaeus, 1758 (Largehead hairtail)
- Trichiurus margarites, Li, 1992
- Trichiurus nanhaiensis, Wang & Xu, 1992
- Trichiurus nickolensis, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2003 (Australian short-tailed hairtail)
- Trichiurus russelli, Dutt & Thankam, 1966 (Short-tailed hairtail)
Extinct species
editExtinct 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
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- ^ Fishbase
- ^ 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.
- ^ The dinosaur fan Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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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