WoRMS taxon details
Trichiurus gangeticus Gupta, 1966
274022 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274022)
accepted
Species
Lepturacanthus gangeticus (Gupta, 1966) · unaccepted
Lepturacanthus serratus Dutt & Thankam, 1967 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gupta, M. V. (1966). Two new species of ribbon fishes of the genus Trichiurus Linnaeus (Pisces: Trichuridae) from the Hooghly estuarine system. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society, Calcutta.</em> 19 (2): 169-171. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Trichiurus gangeticus Gupta, 1966. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274022 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Gupta, M. V. (1966). Two new species of ribbon fishes of the genus Trichiurus Linnaeus (Pisces: Trichuridae) from the Hooghly estuarine system. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society, Calcutta.</em> 19 (2): 169-171. [details]
original description (of Lepturacanthus serratus Dutt & Thankam, 1967) Dutt, S.; Thankam, V. (1967). Two new species of trichiurid fish from Waltair. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 63 (3, art. 8) (for 1966): 755-758, 1 pl. [details]
original description (of Lepturacanthus serratus Dutt & Thankam, 1967) Dutt, S.; Thankam, V. (1967). Two new species of trichiurid fish from Waltair. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 63 (3, art. 8) (for 1966): 755-758, 1 pl. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepturacanthus gangeticus (Gupta, 1966))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepturacanthus serratus Dutt & Thankam, 1967)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Trichiurus gangeticus)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepturacanthus gangeticus (Gupta, 1966))
To FishBase (from synonym Lepturacanthus serratus Dutt & Thankam, 1967)
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepturacanthus gangeticus (Gupta, 1966))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepturacanthus serratus Dutt & Thankam, 1967)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Trichiurus gangeticus)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepturacanthus gangeticus (Gupta, 1966))
To FishBase (from synonym Lepturacanthus serratus Dutt & Thankam, 1967)
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS