Trachinus
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Genus of fishes
| Trachinus | |
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| Trachinus draco - the type species of the genus | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Trachinidae |
| Genus: | Trachinus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Trachinus draco | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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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 Ocean. Three of the Atlantic species occur near the coasts of Europe. An eighth extinct species, T. minutus , is known from Oligocene-aged strata from the Carpathian Mountains, while a ninth species, also extinct, T. dracunculus , is known from middle-Miocene-aged strata from Piemonte, Italy.
The genus name, given by Linnaeus, is from trachina, the Medieval Latin name for the fish,[3] which in turn is from the Ancient Greek τρᾱχύς trachýs ‘rough’.[4]
Species
[edit ]- Spotted weever, Trachinus araneus Cuvier, 1829.
- Guinean weever, Trachinus armatus Bleeker, 1861.
- Sailfin weever, Trachinus collignoni Roux, 1957.
- Trachinus cornutus Guichenot, 1848.
- Greater weever, Trachinus draco Linnaeus, 1758.
- Striped weever, Trachinus lineolatus Fischer, 1885.
- Cape Verde weever, Trachinus pellegrini Cadenat, 1937.
- Starry weever, Trachinus radiatus Cuvier, 1829.
- †Oligocene Carpathian weever, Trachinus minutus (Jonet, 1958)
- †Miocene weever, Trachinus dracunculus Heckel, 1849
- †Pliocene Moroccan weever, Trachinus maroccanus Than-Marchese et al., 2023
References
[edit ]- ^ Přikryl, Tomáš. "A JUVENILE TRACHINUS MINUTUS (PISCES, PERCIFORMES, TRACHINIDAE) FROM THE MIDDLE OLIGOCENE OF LITENČICE (MORAVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC)." Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B-Historia Naturalis 65 (2009).
- ^ Bailly N, ed. (2014). "Trachinus Linnaeus, 1758". FishBase . World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ "trachinoid" . Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ Entry ‘Trachinidae’. Webster’s Third Unabridged Dictionary
Sources
[edit ]External links
[edit ]- Media related to Trachinus at Wikimedia Commons
