Trichiurus lepturus

angličtinaBody 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).

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