Lepturacanthus
Sign in to saveLepturacanthus is a genus of cutlassfish from the Indo-Pacific region. They are benthopelagic species of waters over the continental shelf, it is a predator of a variety of small coastal fishes, squid and crustaceans.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyTrichiuridae
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- Specimen records
- 10
- Family
- Trichiuridae
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- USNM, SIO, AM, MAGNT, ZMUC
- Recorded in
- India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, N/A
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- Trichiurinae
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Lepturacanthus is a genus of cutlassfish from the Indo-Pacific region. They are benthopelagic species of waters over the continental shelf, it is a predator of a variety of small coastal fishes, squid and crustaceans.
==Species== The following species comprise the genus Lepturacanthus: Lepturacanthus pantului, (Gupta, 1966) (Coromandel hairtail) Lepturacanthus roelandti (Bleeker, 1860) Lepturacanthus savala, (Cuvier, 1829) (Savalani hairtail)
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