Tylosurus

<i>Tylosurus</i>

Tylosurus

Genus of fishes

Not to be confused with Tylosaurus.

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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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. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Tylosurus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. [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. [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. [4]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Tylosurus in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  5. [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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