Strongylura exilis (Girard 1854)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Beloniformes
- family
- Belonidae
- genus
- Strongylura
- species
- Strongylura exilis
description
California Needlefish or Pike Needlefish. To 91.4 cm (3 ft) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). San Francisco, northern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to northern Chile (Sielfeld 2010), including Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (nightlight; 47 - 158), intertidal to 100 m (328 ft) (min.: Allen 1999; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).
Name
- Homonyms
- Strongylura exilis (Girard 1854)