CUTLASS (FISH)

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

Species

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