Lepturacanthus

Lepturacanthus is a genus of cutlassfish from the Indo-Pacific region. They are benthopelagic species of waters over the continental shelf, it is a predator of a variety of small coastal fishes, squid and crustaceans.^[1]

Lepturacanthus
Lepturacanthus savala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scombriformes
Family:	Trichiuridae
Subfamily:	Trichiurinae
Genus:	Lepturacanthus Fowler, 1905
Type species
Trichiurus savala Cuvier, 1829

Species

The following species comprise the genus Lepturacanthus:^[2]

• Lepturacanthus pantului, (Gupta, 1966) (Coromandel hairtail)
• Lepturacanthus roelandti (Bleeker, 1860)
• Lepturacanthus savala, (Cuvier, 1829) (Savalani hairtail)