Evoxymetopon

Evoxymetopon is a genus of cutlassfish found in all oceans. It is one of nine genera in the family Trichiuridae.

Evoxymetopon
Evoxymetopon taeniatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Trichiuridae
Subfamily: Lepidopodinae
Genus: Evoxymetopon
T. N. Gill, 1863
Type species
Evoxymetopon taeniatus
Gill 1863

Species

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
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Evoxymetopon in FishBase. February 2018 version.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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