Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
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
Section: Aulopa
Ordo: Aulopiformes
Subordo: Synodontoidei
Familia: Synodontidae
Genus: Trachinocephalus
Species: T. gauguini – T. myops – T. trachinus
Name
Trachinocephalus Gill, 1861
Type species: Salmo myops Forster, 1801
Synonyms
Goodella Ogilby, 1897
Vernacular names
English: Snakefishes
References
Gill, T. N., 1861: Catalogue of the fishes of the eastern coast of North America, from Greenland to Georgia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 13 (Suppl.): 1–63. BHL Reference page.
Nelson, J. S. 2006. Fishes of the World, fourth edition. John Wiley, Hoboken, 624 pp. ISBN 0-471-25031-7. ISBN 978-0-471-25031-9. Reference page.
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. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13038 Reference page.
Links
Trachinocephalus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.
Trachinocephalus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Trachinocephalus trachinus
Trachinocephalus is a genus of fish 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
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.
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