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Cutlass (fish)

A cutlass fish is any of about 20 species of fish of the family Trichiuridae (order Perciformes) found in the tropical seas.

Some genus and species names (marked ?) may be obsolete.

Assurger
- A. anzac - razorback scabbardfish
Benthodesmus
- B. elongatus - frostfish
- B. tenuis Günther 1877 - slender frostfish
Epinnula
- E. orientalis - sackfish
Gempylus
- G. serpens - snake mackerel
Lepidocybium
- L. flavobrunneum - escolar
Lepidopus
- L. fitchi - Pacific scabbardfish
- L. xantusi
Nealotus
- N. tripes - black snake mackerel
Nesiarchus
- N. nasutus - black gemfish
Ruvettus
- R. pretiosus - oilfish
Trichiurus
- T. auriga Klunzinger 1884 - pearly hairtail
- T. gangeticus Gupta 1966 - Ganges hairtail
- T. japonicus Temminck ＆ Schlegel 1844 = T. lepturus?
- T. lepturus L. 1758 - cutlass fish, sabre fish or largehead hairtail(southern USA and Caribbean); 50 - 100 cm long; weight 600 - 900 g.
- T. nanhaiensis Wang and Xu 1992
- T. nitens - Pacific cutlassfish
- T. sagittidens - extinct.
- T. savala - hairtail [formerly Lepturacanthus savala (Cuvier 1829)]
Lepturacanthus ?
- L. pantului Gupta 1966 - Coromandel hairtail
Aphanopus ?
- A. carbo Lowe 1839 - black scabbardfish
- A. intermedius Parin 1983 - intermediate scabbardfish
- A. microphthalmus Norman 1939 - smalleye scabbardfish
- A. mikhailini Parin 1983 - Mikhailin's scabbardfish

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