Trachinocephalus

Genus of fishes

Trachinocephalus
Trachinocephalus myops
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Synodontidae
Subfamily: Synodontinae
Genus: Trachinocephalus
T. N. Gill, 1861

Trachinocephalus is a genus of fishes in the family Synodontidae found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are currently 3 recognized species in this genus:

  • Trachinocephalus gauguini Polanco F., Acero P & Betancur-R., 2016 [1]
  • Trachinocephalus myops (J. R. Forster, 1801) (blunt-nose lizardfish)
  • Trachinocephalus trachinus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) [1]

References

  1. ^ a b Polanco F., A., Acero P., A. & Betancur-R., R. (2016): No longer a circumtropical species: revision of the lizardfishes in the Trachinocephalus myops species complex, with description of a new species from the Marquesas Islands. Journal of Fish Biology, 89 (2): 1302-1323.
Taxon identifiers
Trachinocephalus


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