Trichiurus lepturus

ingliseBody extremely elongate, compressed and tapering to a point. Mouth large with a dermal process at the tip of each jaw. Dorsal fin relatively high; anal fin reduced to minute spinules usually embedded in the skin or slightly breaking through; anterior margin of pectoral fin spine not serrated. Pelvic and caudal fins absent. Lateral line beginning at the upper margin of the gill cover, running oblique to behind the tip of the pectoral fins, then straight close to the ventral contour. Fresh specimens steely blue with silvery reflections, becoming uniformly silvery gray sometime after death (Ref. 6181).

• Trichiurus lajor Bleeker, 1854
• Trichiurus nitens Garman, 1899
• Clupea haumela Forsskål, 1775
• Trichiurus argenteus Shaw, 1803
• Trichiuris haumela (Forsskål, 1775)
• Trichiurus lepturus japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
• Trichyurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
• Trichiurus coxii Ramsay & Ogilby, 1887
• Trichiurus japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
• Trichurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
• Trichiurus japanicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
• Trichiurus malabaricus Day, 1865
• Trachiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
• Trichiurus haumela (Forsskål, 1775)