Cutlassfishes

The cutlassfishes are about 40 species of predatory fish found in seas throughout the world. Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, giving rise to their name. They have reduced or absent pelvic and caudal fins, giving them an eel-like appearance, and large fang-like teeth. Some of the species are known as scabbardfishes or hairtails or Walla Walla; others are called frostfishes because they appear in late autumn and early winter, around the time of the first frosts. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry Get back to Perciformes

Largehead hairtail

phylum	Chordata	The largehead hairtail is a long, slender fish found throughout the tropical and temperate waters of the world. The Atlantic and Pacific populations are also known as Atlantic cutlassfish and Pacific cutlassfish, respectively. Largehead hairtails can grow to over 2 m in length. They live in shallow coastal waters, rising to eat planktonic crustaceans during the day and returning to the sea bed at night. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Cutlassfishes
class	Actinopterygii
order	Perciformes
family	Trichiuridae
genus	Trichiurus
species	T. lepturus

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