''Trachinus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of weevers, order

Perciformes Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means ...

that consists of seven extant

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

. Six of the genus representatives inhabit the waters of Eastern

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, but only one, '' Trachinus cornutus'', inhabits the South-Eastern

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. Three of the Atlantic species occur near the coasts of

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. An eighth extinct species, '' T. minutus'', is known from

Oligocene The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but ...

-aged strata from the Carpathian Mountains, while a ninth species, also extinct, '' T. dracunculus'', is known from middle-

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" ...

-aged strata from

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. The genus name, given by

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...

, is from ', the

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name for the fish, which in turn is from the

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τρᾱχύς ''trachýs'' ‘rough’.Entry ‘Trachinidae’. Webster’s ''Third Unabridged Dictionary''

Species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

* Spotted weever, ''

Trachinus araneus The spotted weever, ''Trachinus araneus'', is a fish of the family Trachinidae, order Perciformes, and class Actinopterygii. It is up to 45 cm long, brown and yellow on the head and back, paler below with darker spots along the sides. The ...

'' Cuvier, 1829. * Guinean weever, '' Trachinus armatus'' Bleeker, 1861. * Sailfin weever, '' Trachinus collignoni''

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, 1957. *'' Trachinus cornutus'' Guichenot, 1848. *

Greater weever The greater weever (''Trachinus draco'', Linnaeus 1758) is a benthic and demersal venomous marine fish of the family Trachinidae. The greater weever is widely distributed along the eastern Atlantic coastline from Norway to Morocco, extending to ...

, '' Trachinus draco''

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoological ...

. *

Striped weever The striped weever, ''Trachinus lineolatus'', is a fish of the family Trachinidae. Widespread in the Eastern Atlantic from Guinea-Bissau to São Tomé Island and Gabon, it is a marine tropical demersal fish Demersal fish, also known as g ...

, ''

Trachinus lineolatus The striped weever, ''Trachinus lineolatus'', is a fish of the family Trachinidae. Widespread in the Eastern Atlantic from Guinea-Bissau to São Tomé Island and Gabon, it is a marine tropical demersal fish, up to in length. References ...

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, 1885. * Cape Verde weever, ''

Trachinus pellegrini ''Trachinus pellegrini'', the Cape Verde weever, is a fish of the family Trachinidae. Widespread in the eastern Atlantic along the coasts of Senegal to Nigeria, including the Canary Islands and Cape Verde, and also reported from Mauritania, it ...

'' Cadenat, 1937. * Starry weever, ''

Trachinus radiatus The starry weever, or streaked weever, ''Trachinus radiatus'', is a fish of the family Trachinidae widespread in the eastern Atlantic from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Guinea, and probably further south; it is also known from the Mediterranean Sea. ...

'' Cuvier, 1829. *†Oligocene Carpathian weever, '' Trachinus minutus'' ( Jonet, 1958) *†Miocene weever, '' Trachinus draculanus'' Heckel, 1849

References

Sources

''Trachinus'' at FishBase

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q2302295 Trachinidae Extant Oligocene first appearances Marine fish genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus