Cutlassfish
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The cutlassfishes are about 40 species of predatory fish in the family Trichiuridae (order Perciformes
) found in seas throughout the world. Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, giving rise to their name. They have reduced or absent pelvic and caudal fins, giving them an eel
-like appearance, and large fang-like teeth.
Some of the species are known as scabbardfishes or hairtails or Walla Walla; others are called frostfishes because they appear in late autumn and early winter, around the time of the first frosts.
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Perciformes
The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...
) found in seas throughout the world. Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, giving rise to their name. They have reduced or absent pelvic and caudal fins, giving them an eel
Eel
Eels are an order of fish, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and approximately 800 species. Most eels are predators...
-like appearance, and large fang-like teeth.
Some of the species are known as scabbardfishes or hairtails or Walla Walla; others are called frostfishes because they appear in late autumn and early winter, around the time of the first frosts.
Classification
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- Genus Aphanopus
- Aphanopus arigato Parin, 1994
- Aphanopus beckeri Parin, 1994
- Aphanopus capricornis Parin, 1994
- Black scabbardfishBlack scabbardfishThe black scabbardfish, Aphanopus carbo, is a bathypelagic cutlassfish of the family Trichiuridae found in the Atlantic Ocean between latitudes 69° N and 27° N at depths of between 180 and 1,700 m...
, A. carbo LoweRichard Thomas LoweRichard Thomas Lowe was a British botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge and in the same year took holy orders. He became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands in 1832, where he was a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the...
, 1839 - Intermediate scabbardfish, A. intermedius Parin, 1983
- Smalleye scabbardfish, A. microphthalmus Norman, 1939
- Mikhailin's scabbardfish, A. mikhailini Parin, 1983
- Genus Assurger
- Razorback scabbardfishRazorback scabbardfishThe razorback scabbardfish, Assurger anzac, is a rare species of cutlassfish, family Trichiuridae, and the only member of its genus. It has been caught from scattered locations worldwide: in the Atlantic Ocean it is known from off Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and the Walvis Ridge, in the Indian Ocean it...
, Assurger anzac Alexander, 1917
- Razorback scabbardfish
- Genus Benthodesmus
- Elongate frostfish, B. elongatus Clarke, 1879
- Bigeye frostfish, B. macrophthalmus Parin & Becker, 1970
- Neglected frostfish, B. neglectus Parin, 1976
- Sparse-rayed frostfish, B. oligoradiatus Parin & Becker, 1970
- North Pacific frostfish, B. pacificus Parin & Becker, 1970
- Papuan frostfish, B. papua Parin, 1978
- Simony's frostfish, B. simonyi SteindachnerFranz SteindachnerFranz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
, 1891
- Philippine frostfish, B. suluensis Parin ,1976
- Slender frostfish, Benthodesmus tenuis|B. tenuis]] Günther, 1877
- Tucker's frostfish, B. tuckeri Parin & Becker, 1970
- Vityaz' frostfish, B. vityazi Parin & Becker, 1970
- Genus Demissolinea
- New Guinean hairtail, D. novaeguineensis Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2003
- Genus Eupleurogrammus
- Longtooth hairtail, E. glossodon (BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1860) - Smallhead hairtail, E. muticus (Gray, 1831)
- Longtooth hairtail, E. glossodon (Bleeker
- Genus Evoxymetopon
- Evoxymetopon macrophthalmus Chakraborty, Yoshino & Iwatsuki, 2006.
- Poey's scabbardfish, E. poeyi Günther, 1887
- Channel scabbardfish, E. taeniatus Gill, 1863
- Genus Lepidopus
- Crested scabbardfish, L. altifrons Parin & Collette, 1993
- Hawaiian ridge scabbardfish, L. calcar Parin & Mikhailin, 1982
- Silver scabbardfishSilver scabbardfishThe silver scabbardfish , Lepidopus caudatus, is a cutlassfish of the family Trichiuridae found throughout the temperate seas of the world. It grows to over in length.-References:...
, L. caudatus (Euphrasen, 1788) - Doubtful scabbardfish, L. dubius Parin & Mikhailin, 1981
- Fitch's scabbardfish, L. fitchi Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987
- Ghost scabbardfish, L. manis Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987
- Genus Lepturacanthus
- Coromandel hairtail, L. pantului (Gupta, 1966)
- Savalani hairtail, L. savala (CuvierGeorges CuvierGeorges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
, 1829)
- Genus Tentoriceps
- Crested hairtail, T. cristatus (Klunzinger, 1884)
- Genus Trichiurus
- 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 hairtailLargehead hairtailThe largehead hairtail , Trichiurus lepturus, is a member of the cutlassfish family, Trichiuridae. It is a long, slender fish found throughout the tropical and temperate waters of the world...
, T. lepturus LinnaeusCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
, 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