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Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758

127089  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127089)

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Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 246 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Description Occurs on continental shelf, occasionally in shallow waters and at surface at night. Generally found on muddy bottoms of...  
Description Occurs on continental shelf, occasionally in shallow waters and at surface at night. Generally found on muddy bottoms of shallow coastal waters and may often penetrate estuaries (Ref.9351). Immature fish feed mostly on euphausiids, small pelagic planktonic crustaceans, small fishes while adults feed on anchovies, sardines, myctophiids etc. and occasionally on squids and crustaceans. Adults and juveniles have opposing complementary vertical diurnal feeding migration. Large adults usually feed on pelagic prey near the surface during the daytime and migrate to the bottom at night. Juveniles and small adults form schools 100 m above the bottom during the daytime and form loose feeding aggregations at night-time near the surface where they prey on planktonic organisms. Caught in estuaries and offshore waters throughout the world (Ref. 9688). Also caught with encircling nets (Ref. 9351). Marketed salted/dried and also frozen (Ref. 9351). Excellent taste when fried or grilled; also for sashimi when fresh. [details]

Distribution Worldwide distribution, except eastern Pacific, in warm seas. Western Atlantic north to Massachusetts, common from...  
Distribution Worldwide distribution, except eastern Pacific, in warm seas. Western Atlantic north to Massachusetts, common from Chesapeake Bay south. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127089 on 2024-03-28
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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 246 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Clupea haumela Forsskål, 1775) Niebuhr, C. (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. <em>Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae.</em> 1-20 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, map. [Pisces on pp. x-xix and 22-76]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18564
page(s): 72, xiii [details]   

original description  (of Trichiurus argenteus Shaw, 1803) Shaw, G. (1803). General zoology or systematic natural history . <em>Pisces. G. Kearsley, London, 1800-1826.</em> vol. 4 (1803) and vol. 5 (1804). [Series is 14 vols., 1800-1826.]. v. 4: (pt. 1) i-v + 1-186, Pls. 1-25; (pt 2), i-xiii + 187-632, Pls. 26-92.
page(s): 90, Pl. 12 [details]   

original description  (of Trichiurus malabaricus Day, 1865) Day, F. (1865). On the fishes of Cochin, on the Malabar coast of India. Part I. Acanthopterygii. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1865 (pt 1) (art. 1): 2-40.
page(s): 20 [details]   

original description  (of Trichiurus lajor Bleeker, 1854) Bleeker, P. (1854). Vijfde bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van Celebes. <em>Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië.</em> v. 7 (no. 2): 225-260. [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

context source (HKRMS) ERM. (1998). Fisheries resources and fishing operations in Hong Kong waters. Final report. Submitted to Agriculture & Fisheries Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government. [details]   

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]   

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Fritzsche, 1978 [details]   

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]   

additional source Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. <i>J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A)</i>: 1-37 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 246 [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Occurs on continental shelf, occasionally in shallow waters and at surface at night. Generally found on muddy bottoms of shallow coastal waters and may often penetrate estuaries (Ref.9351). Immature fish feed mostly on euphausiids, small pelagic planktonic crustaceans, small fishes while adults feed on anchovies, sardines, myctophiids etc. and occasionally on squids and crustaceans. Adults and juveniles have opposing complementary vertical diurnal feeding migration. Large adults usually feed on pelagic prey near the surface during the daytime and migrate to the bottom at night. Juveniles and small adults form schools 100 m above the bottom during the daytime and form loose feeding aggregations at night-time near the surface where they prey on planktonic organisms. Caught in estuaries and offshore waters throughout the world (Ref. 9688). Also caught with encircling nets (Ref. 9351). Marketed salted/dried and also frozen (Ref. 9351). Excellent taste when fried or grilled; also for sashimi when fresh. [details]

Distribution Worldwide distribution, except eastern Pacific, in warm seas. Western Atlantic north to Massachusetts, common from Chesapeake Bay south. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]
LanguageName 
Albanian peshku shiritpeshk thikë  [details]
Dutch haarstaartdegenvis  [details]
English Pacific cutlassfish [from synonym]largehead hairtailhairtailAtlantic cutlassfishAtlantic cutlass fish  [details]
French poisson-sabre commun  [details]
German Haarschwanz  [details]
Hebrew רצוען דק-זנב  [details]
Japanese タチウオ  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Λέπτουρο σπαθόψαρο  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål trådstjert  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk trådstjert  [details]
Russian обыкновенная сабля-рыбаВолосохвост обыкновенный  [details]
Spanish sable del Pacífico [from synonym]sable del Atlántico  [details]
Turkish kilkuyruk baligi  [details]