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

Species

Species within this genus include: * '' Trichiurus auriga'', Klunzinger, 1884 (Pearly hairtail) * '' Trichiurus australis'' Chakraborty, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2005. * '' Trichiurus brevis'', Wang & You, 1992 (Chinese short-tailed hairtail) * '' Trichiurus gangeticus'', Gupta, 1966 (Ganges hairtail) * ''

Trichiurus lepturus The largehead hairtail (''Trichiurus lepturus'') or beltfish is a member of the cutlassfish family, Trichiuridae. This common to abundant species is found in tropical and temperate oceans throughout the world. The taxonomy is not fully resolved, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

(Largehead hairtail) * '' Trichiurus margarites'', Li, 1992 * '' Trichiurus nanhaiensis'', Wang & Xu, 1992 * '' Trichiurus nickolensis'', Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2003 (Australian short-tailed hairtail) * '' Trichiurus russelli'', Dutt & Thankam, 1966 (Short-tailed hairtail)

Extinct species

Extinct species within this genus include: * ''Trichiurus oshoshunensis'' Casier 1958 Extinct species lived from the

Eocene The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes ...

epoch to the

Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the ...

period, approximately from 48.6 to 0.012 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the

sediments of Antarctica, Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States, in the

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 ...

of Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Panama, Slovakia and in the

of United States.Fossilworks
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FOSSIL CUTLASSFISH (PERCIFORMES: TRICHIURIDAE) TEETH FROM THE LA MESETA FORMATION (EOCENE), SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA
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References

* Trichiuridae Ray-finned fish genera Extant Eocene first appearances Marine fish genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Scombroidei-stub