Trichiurus

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

Trichiurus Temporal range: Eocene - Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Trichiurus lepturus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scombriformes
Family:	Trichiuridae
Subfamily:	Trichiurinae
Genus:	Trichiurus Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus 1758.

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]