Lepidopus

Genus of ray-finned fishes

Lepidopus

Temporal range: Oligocene \- Quaternary

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Drawing of Lepidopus caudatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Scombriformes
Family:  | Trichiuridae
Subfamily:  | Lepidopodinae
Genus:  | Lepidopus
Goüan, 1770
Type species
Lepidopus gouanianus

Lacepède, 1800

Synonyms

* Scarcina Rafinesque, 1810
* Vandellius Shaw, 1803
* Ziphotheca Montagu, 1811

Lepidopus is a genus of cutlassfishes.[1]

## Fossil record

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These fishes lived from the Oligocene to Quaternary (from 33.9 to 1.806 million years ago). Fossils have been found in Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary.[2]

Fossil of Lepidopus proargenteus

## Species

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Species within this genus include:[3]

* Lepidopus altifrons, Parin & Collette, 1993 (Crested scabbardfish)
* Lepidopus calcar, Parin & Mikhailin, 1982 (Hawaiian ridge scabbardfish)
* Lepidopus caudatus, (Euphrasen, 1788) (Silver scabbardfish)
* Lepidopus dubius, Parin & Mikhailin, 1981 (Doubtful scabbardfish)
* Lepidopus fitchi , Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 (Fitch's scabbardfish)
* Lepidopus manis, Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 (Ghost scabbardfish)

## Bibliography

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* D'Onghia, G., F. Mastrototaro i P. Maiorano, 2000. Biology of silver scabbard fish, Lepidopus caudatus (Trichiuridae), from the Ionian Sea (Eastern-Central Mediterranean). Cybium 24(3):249-262.
* Fritzsche, R.A., 1982. Osteichthyes. A: Parker, S.P., Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, vol. 2. McGraw-Hill, New York: 858-944.
* Parin, N. V. & Mikhailin, S. V., 1981. A new species of cutlassfish, Lepidopus dubius (Trichiuridae), from the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 21 (núm. 3): 403-410.
* Parin, N. V. & Mikhailin, S. V., 1982. Lepidopus calcar, a new trichiurid fish from the Hawaiian underwater ridge. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 29 (n. 1): 27-30.
* Portsev, P.I. i Y.K. Nikolaev, 1984. First discovery of frostfish, Lepidopus caudatus (Trichiuridae), in the Black sea. J. Ichthyol. 24(2):108
* Rosenblatt, R. H. & Wilson, R. R. Jr., 1987. Cutlassfishes of the genus Lepidopus (Trichiuridae), with two new eastern Pacific species. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 33 (n. 4): 342-351.
* Rosenblatt, R. H. & Wilson, R. R., Jr., 1987. Cutlassfishes of the genus Lepidopus (Trichiuridae), with two new eastern Pacific species. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 33 (núm. 4): 342-351.
* Tuset, V.M., J.A. González, J.I. Santana, A. Moreno-Lopez i M.M. Garcia-Diaz, 2006. Reproductive pattern and growth in Lepidopus caudatus (Osteichthyes, Trichiuridae) from the Canary Islands (Eastern-Central Atlantic). Electronic Journal of ichthyology 1:26-37.

## References

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1. ^ Catalogue of species
2. ^ Paleobiology Database
3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lepidopus". FishBase. February 2018 version.

Taxon identifiers

Lepidopus|

* Wikidata: Q2246991
* ADW: Lepidopus
* AFD: Lepidopus
* BOLD: 7066
* CoL: 87GTN
* GBIF: 7609446
* iNaturalist: 89412
* IRMNG: 1364482
* ITIS: 172390
* NBN: NHMSYS0021053415
* NCBI: 107244
* NZOR: 96bef535-d27a-47df-83b1-c7c63937bfc2
* Open Tree of Life: 1068320
* Paleobiology Database: 36070
* WoRMS: 347384

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