Tylosurus is a genus of needlefish, one of ten in the family Belonidae. They are found worldwide in tropical and warmer temperate seas[2] and two species have been recorded as Lessepsian migrants in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.[3]
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| Red Sea houndfish - T. choram | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beloniformes |
| Family: | Belonidae |
| Genus: | Tylosurus Cocco, 1833 |
| Type species | |
| Tylosurus cantrainei Cocco, 1833[1]
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Species
editThe seven currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]
- Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803)
- T. a. acus (Lacépède, 1803) (Agujon needlefish)
- T. a. imperialis (Rafinesque, 1810)
- T. a. melanotus (Bleeker, 1850) (keel-jawed needlefish)
- T. a. rafale Collette & Parin, 1970 (Atlantic agujon needlefish)
- Tylosurus choram (Rüppell, 1837) (Red Sea houndfish)
- Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur, 1821) (Houndfish)
- Tylosurus fodiator D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882 (Mexican needlefish)
- Tylosurus gavialoides (Castelnau, 1873) (Stout long tom)
- Tylosurus pacificus (Steindachner, 1876) (Pacific agujon needlefish)
- Tylosurus punctulatus (Günther, 1872) (Spotted long tom)
Etymology
editThe generic name Tylosurus is a compound created from the Greek words tylos meaning a "callus" and oura meaning "tail", this refers to the keel like structures on the caudal peduncle of these fish.[5]
References
edit- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Tylosurus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ Bruce Baden Collette (2003). Family Belonidae Bonaparte 1832 needlefishes. Vol. 16. California Academy of Sciences. ISSN 1545-150X.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Barbara Zorica; Vanja Čikeš Keč; Armin Palloro; et al. (2016). "First record of agujon needlefish, Tylosurus acus imperialis (Rafinesque, 1810) (Osteichthyes: Belonidae) in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea". Acta Adriatica. 57 (1): 183–186.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tylosurus". FishBase. April 2019 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (15 June 2019). "Order BELONIFORMES (Needlefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
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