Trichiurus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Pelagiaria
Ordo: Scombriformes

Familia: Trichiuridae
Genus: Trichiurus
Species: T. auriga – T. australis – T. brevis – T. gangeticus – T. lepturus – T. margarites – T. nanhaiensis – T. nickolensis – T. russelli
Name

Trichiurus Linnaeus, 1758
Gender: masculine
Type species: Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
Fixation: monotypy

References

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542: 246. Reference page.
Yi, M-R., Hsu, K-C., Gu, S., He, X-B., Luo, Z-S., Lin, H-D. & Yan, Y-R. 2022. Complete mitogenomes of four Trichiurus species: A taxonomic review of the T. lepturus species complex. ZooKeys 1084ː 1–26. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1084.71576 Open access Reference page.

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Trichiurus in the World Register of Marine Species

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

Species within this genus include:[1]

Trichiurus auriga, Klunzinger, 1884 (Pearly hairtail)
Trichiurus australis Chakraborty, Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki, 2005.[2]
Trichiurus brevis, Wang & You, 1992 (Chinese short-tailed hairtail)
Trichiurus gangeticus, Gupta, 1966 (Ganges hairtail)
Trichiurus lepturus, Linnaeus, 1758 (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 [3]

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.[4][5]
References

Fishbase
Anirban Chakraborty; Andi Iqbal Burhanuddin; Yukio Iwatsuki (2005). "A new species, Trichiurus australis (Perciformes: Trichiuridae), from Australia". Ichthyological Research. 52 (2): 165–170. doi:10.1007/s10228-005-0268-4. S2CID 6377460.
The dinosaur fan Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
Fossilworks

Douglas J. Long FOSSIL CUTLASSFISH (PERCIFORMES: TRICHIURIDAE) TEETH FROM THE LA MESETA FORMATION (EOCENE), SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560.