Trachinocephalus trachinus
Trachinocephalus trachinus, also known as the Indo-Pacific blunt-nose lizardfish is a species of fish in the family Synodontidae found in Indo-Pacific. Although previously synonymized with T. myops, Polanco et al. (2016) demonstrated that the two are distinct in the number of lateral-line scales and other meristics, and resurrected T. trachinus for the Indo-Pacific population.[1] This species grows to a length of 40 centimetres (16 in) TL.[2]
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| Trachinocephalus trachinus (Temmick and Schlegel, 1846) | |
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Saurus trachinus Temmick and Schlegel, 1846 | |
References
- Polanco F., A., Acero P., A. & Betancur-R., R. (2016): No longer a circumtropical species: revision of the lizardfishes in the Trachinocephalus myops species complex, with description of a new species from the Marquesas Islands. Journal of Fish Biology, 89 (2): 1302-1323.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Trachinocephalus myops" in FishBase. June 2016 version.
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