- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Spiny-rayed fishes
- ›Perches, Scorpionfishes, Sticklebacks, and Allies
- ›Perches, groupers and allies
- ›Weeverfishes
Trachinus
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...
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species
Greater Weever
speciesTrachinus draco
Starry Weever
speciesTrachinus radiatus
Spotted Weever
speciesTrachinus araneus
Trachinus lineolatus
speciesTrachinus lineolatus
Trachinus cornutus
speciesTrachinus cornutus
Trachinus pellegrini
speciesTrachinus pellegrini
Trachinus collignoni
speciesTrachinus collignoni
Guinean weever
speciesTrachinus armatus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Trachinus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 92580.