''Trachinus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of weevers, order

Perciformes Perciformes (), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. ''Perciformes'' means " perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters ( Percidae), and als ...

that consists of seven extant

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

. Six of the genus representatives inhabit the waters of Eastern

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, but only one, ''

Trachinus cornutus ''Trachinus cornutus'' is a species of weeverfish. Unlike all other extent weevers, which are found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, ''T. cornutus'' is widespread in the southeastern Pacific along the coasts of Chile, it is a mari ...

'', 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 (geology), epoch of the Paleogene Geologic time scale, Period that extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that defin ...

-aged strata from the

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, while a ninth species, also extinct, '' T. dracunculus'', is known from middle-

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), 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 mea ...

-aged strata from

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. The genus name, given by

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

, 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

* Spotted weever, '' Trachinus araneus''

Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...

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

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, 1957. *''

'' Guichenot, 1848. * Greater weever, ''

Trachinus draco 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 t ...

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 zoologic ...

. * Striped weever, '' Trachinus lineolatus''

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, 1885. * Cape Verde weever, '' Trachinus pellegrini'' Cadenat, 1937. * Starry weever, '' Trachinus radiatus'' Cuvier, 1829. *†Oligocene Carpathian weever, ''

Trachinus minutus ''Trachinus'' is a genus of weevers, order Perciformes that consists of seven extant species. Six of the genus representatives inhabit the waters of Eastern Atlantic Ocean, but only one, ''Trachinus cornutus'', inhabits the South-Eastern Pacific ...

'' ( Jonet, 1958) *†Miocene weever, '' Trachinus dracunculus'' Heckel, 1849 *†Pliocene Moroccan weever, '' Trachinus maroccanus'' Than-Marchese et al., 2023

References

Sources

''Trachinus'' at FishBase

External links

* {{Authority control Trachinidae Extant Oligocene first appearances Marine fish genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus