Tylosurus

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Not to be confused with Tylosaurus.

Tylosurus
Red Sea houndfish - T. choram
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beloniformes
Family: Belonidae
Genus: Tylosurus
Cocco, 1833
Type species
Tylosurus cantrainei
Cocco, 1833[1]

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]

Species

The seven currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]

Etymology

The 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

  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Tylosurus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. ^ Bruce Baden Collette (2003). Family Belonidae Bonaparte 1832 needlefishes. Vol. 16. California Academy of Sciences. ISSN 1545-150X. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tylosurus". FishBase. April 2019 version.
  5. ^ 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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