Trachinocephalus trachinus
Appearance
Trachinocephalus trachinus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Aulopiformes |
Family: | Synodontidae |
Genus: | Trachinocephalus |
Species: | T. trachinus
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Binomial name | |
Trachinocephalus trachinus | |
Synonyms | |
Saurus trachinus Temmick and Schlegel, 1846 |
Trachinocephalus trachinus, also known as the Indo-Pacific blunt-nose lizardfish is a species of fish in the family Synodontidae found in Indo-Pacific. Although previously synonymized with T. myops, Polanco et al. (2016) demonstrated that the two are distinct in the number of lateral-line scales and other meristics, and resurrected T. trachinus for the Indo-Pacific population.[1] This species grows to a length of 40 centimetres (16 in) TL.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Trachinocephalus myops". FishBase. June 2016 version.