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Cutlass (fish)
A
cutlass fish
is any of about 20 species of fish of the family Trichiuridae (order
Perciformes
) found in the tropical seas.
Species
Some genus and species names (marked ?) may be obsolete.
Assurger
A. anzac
- razorback scabbardfish
Benthodesmus
B. elongatus
- frostfish
B. tenuis
Günther 1877 - slender frostfish
Epinnula
E. orientalis
- sackfish
Gempylus
G. serpens
- snake mackerel
Lepidocybium
L. flavobrunneum
- escolar
Lepidopus
L. fitchi
- Pacific scabbardfish
L. xantusi
Nealotus
N. tripes
- black snake mackerel
Nesiarchus
N. nasutus
- black gemfish
Ruvettus
R. pretiosus
- oilfish
Trichiurus
T. auriga
Klunzinger 1884 - pearly hairtail
T. gangeticus
Gupta 1966 - Ganges hairtail
T. japonicus
Temminck
& Schlegel 1844 =
T. lepturus
?
T. lepturus
L. 1758 - cutlass fish, sabre fish or largehead hairtail(southern USA and Caribbean); 50 - 100 cm long; weight 600 - 900 g.
T. nanhaiensis
Wang and Xu 1992
T. nitens
- Pacific cutlassfish
T. sagittidens
- extinct.
T. savala
- hairtail [formerly
Lepturacanthus savala
(
Cuvier
1829)]
Lepturacanthus
?
L. pantului
Gupta 1966 - Coromandel hairtail
Aphanopus
?
A. carbo
Lowe 1839 - black scabbardfish
A. intermedius
Parin 1983 - intermediate scabbardfish
A. microphthalmus
Norman 1939 - smalleye scabbardfish
A. mikhailini
Parin 1983 - Mikhailin's scabbardfish
External Links
Listing of Trichiuridae in English and Japanese 2003-10-27