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Trichiurus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Actinopterygii

Family
  
Trichiuridae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Perciformes

Trichiurus

Genus
  
Trichiurus Linnaeus, 1758

Trichiurus is a genus of cutlassfishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae.

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Species

Species within this genus include:

  • Pearly hairtail, T. auriga Klunzinger, 1884
  • Trichiurus australis Chakraborty, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2005.
  • 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

    • Extinct species

    Extinct species within this genus include:

  • Trichiurus oshoshunensis Casier 1958

    • 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.

    References

    Trichiurus Wikipedia
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