| Trachinus | |
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| Trachinus draco - the type species of the genus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Trachinidae |
| Genus: | Trachinus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Trachinus draco | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Trachinus is a genus of weevers, order Perciformes that consists of seven extant species. Six of the genus representatives inhabit the waters of Eastern Atlantic Ocean, but only one, Trachinus cornutus , inhabits the South-Eastern Pacific Ocean. Three of the Atlantic species occur near the coasts of Europe. An eighth extinct species, T. minutus , is known from Oligocene-aged strata from the Carpathian Mountains, while a ninth species, also extinct, T. dracunculus , is known from middle-Miocene-aged strata from Piemonte, Italy.
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The genus name, given by Linnaeus, is from trachina, the Medieval Latin name for the fish, [3] which in turn is from the Ancient Greek τρᾱχύς trachýs ‘rough’. [4]
