''Lepidopus'' is a genus of fishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae.

Fossil record

These fishes lived from the

Oligocene The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the ...

Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years ...

(from 33.9 to 1.806 million years ago). Fossils have been found in Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary. Paleobiology Database
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Species

Species within this genus include: * '' Lepidopus altifrons'', Parin & Collette, 1993 (Crested scabbardfish) * '' Lepidopus calcar'', Parin & Mikhailin, 1982 (Hawaiian ridge scabbardfish) * ''

Lepidopus caudatus The silver scabbardfish (''Lepidopus caudatus''), also known as the frostfish or beltfish is a benthopelagic cutlassfish of the family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recogn ...

'', ( Euphrasen, 1788) (Silver scabbardfish) * '' Lepidopus dubius'', Parin & Mikhailin, 1981 (Doubtful scabbardfish) * ''

Lepidopus fitchi ''Lepidopus'' is a genus of fishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae. Fossil record These fishes lived from the Oligocene to Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the ...

'', Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 (Fitch's scabbardfish) * '' Lepidopus manis'', Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 (Ghost scabbardfish)

Bibliography

* D'Onghia, G., F. Mastrototaro i P. Maiorano, 2000. Biology of silver scabbard fish, Lepidopus caudatus (Trichiuridae), from the Ionian Sea (Eastern-Central Mediterranean). Cybium 24(3):249-262. * Fritzsche, R.A., 1982. Osteichthyes. A: Parker, S.P., Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, vol. 2. McGraw-Hill, New York: 858-944. * Parin, N. V. & Mikhailin, S. V., 1981. A new species of cutlassfish, Lepidopus dubius (Trichiuridae), from the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 21 (núm. 3): 403-410. * Parin, N. V. & Mikhailin, S. V., 1982. Lepidopus calcar, a new trichiurid fish from the Hawaiian underwater ridge. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 29 (n. 1): 27-30. * Portsev, P.I. i Y.K. Nikolaev, 1984. First discovery of frostfish, Lepidopus caudatus (Trichiuridae), in the Black sea. J. Ichthyol. 24(2):108 * Rosenblatt, R. H. & Wilson, R. R. Jr., 1987. Cutlassfishes of the genus Lepidopus (Trichiuridae), with two new eastern Pacific species. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 33 (n. 4): 342-351. * Rosenblatt, R. H. & Wilson, R. R., Jr., 1987. Cutlassfishes of the genus Lepidopus (Trichiuridae), with two new eastern Pacific species. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 33 (núm. 4): 342-351. * Tuset, V.M., J.A. González, J.I. Santana, A. Moreno-Lopez i M.M. Garcia-Diaz, 2006. Reproductive pattern and growth in Lepidopus caudatus (Osteichthyes, Trichiuridae) from the Canary Islands (Eastern-Central Atlantic). Electronic Journal of ichthyology 1:26-37.

References

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