Evoxymetopon
| Evoxymetopon | |
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| Evoxymetopon taeniatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Trichiuridae |
| Subfamily: | Lepidopodinae |
| Genus: | Evoxymetopon T. N. Gill, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Evoxymetopon taeniatus Gill 1863
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Evoxymetopon is a genus of cutlassfish found in all oceans. It is one of nine genera in the family Trichiuridae.
Species
[edit]There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Evoxymetopon macrophthalmus Chakraborty, Yoshino & Iwatsuki, 2006 (Bigeye scabbardfish) [2]
- Evoxymetopon moricheni Fricke, Golani & Appelbaum-Golani, 2014 [3]
- Evoxymetopon poeyi Günther, 1887 (Poey's scabbardfish)
- Evoxymetopon taeniatus T. N. Gill, 1863 (Channel scabbardfish)
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Evoxymetopon". FishBase. February 2018 version.
- ^ Chakraborty, A., Yoshino, T. & Iwatsuki, Y. (2006): A new species of scabbardfish, Evoxymetopon macrophthalmus (Scombroidei: Trichiuridae), from Okinawa, Japan. Ichthyological Research, 53 (2): 137-142.
- ^ Fricke, R., Golani, D. & Appelbaum-Golani, B. (2014): Evoxymetopon moricheni, a new cutlassfish from the northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Trichiuridae). Ichthyological Research, 61 (3): 293-297.
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