Trachinus

Short description: Genus of fishes

Trachinus

Temporal range: Oligocene-Holocene[1]

Trachinus draco \- the type species of the genus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Trachiniformes
Family:  | Trachinidae
Genus:  | Trachinus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Trachinus draco

Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms[2]

* Corystion Rafinesque, 1810
* Pseudotrachinus Bleeker, 1861

Trachinus is a genus of weevers, order Perciformes that consists of seven extant species. Six of the genus representatives inhabit the waters of Eastern Atlantic Ocean, but only one, Trachinus cornutus, inhabits the South-Eastern Pacific Ocean. Three of the Atlantic species occur near the coasts of Europe. An eighth extinct species, T. minutus, is known from Oligocene-aged strata from the Carpathian Mountains, while a ninth species, also extinct, T. dracunculus, is known from middle-Miocene-aged strata from Piemonte, Italy.

The genus name, given by Linnaeus, is from trachina, the Medieval Latin name for the fish,[3] which in turn is from the Ancient Greek τρᾱχύς trachýs ‘rough’.[4]

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 References
* 3 Sources
* 4 External links

## Species

* Spotted weever, Trachinus araneus Cuvier, 1829.
* Guinean weever, Trachinus armatus Bleeker, 1861.
* Sailfin weever, Trachinus collignoni Roux, 1957.
* Trachinus cornutus Guichenot, 1848.
* Greater weever, Trachinus draco Linnaeus, 1758.
* Striped weever, Trachinus lineolatus Fischer, 1885.
* Cape Verde weever, Trachinus pellegrini Cadenat, 1937.
* Starry weever, Trachinus radiatus Cuvier, 1829.
* †Oligocene Carpathian weever, Trachinus minutus (Jonet, 1958)
* †Miocene weever, Trachinus draculanus Heckel, 1849

## References

1. ↑ Přikryl, Tomáš. "A JUVENILE TRACHINUS MINUTUS (PISCES, PERCIFORMES, TRACHINIDAE) FROM THE MIDDLE OLIGOCENE OF LITENČICE (MORAVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC)." Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B-Historia Naturalis 65 (2009).
2. ↑ "Trachinus Linnaeus, 1758". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. 2014. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126094.
3. ↑ trachinoid (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, September 2005, http://oed.com/search?searchType=dictionary&q=trachinoid (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. ↑ Entry ‘Trachinidae’. Webster’s Third Unabridged Dictionary

## Sources

* Trachinus at FishBase

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2302295 entry

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