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Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Lacépède, Bernard G. É. de. 1803. Histoire naturelle des poissons. Plasson, Paris. Vol. 5: i-lxviii, 1-803, index, pls. 1-21.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Beloniformes
family
Belonidae
genus
Tylosurus
species
Tylosurus acus

Name

Synonyms
Tylosaurus arcus
Homonyms
Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803)
Common names
Aguglia Imperiale in Italian
Aguja Imperial in Spanish
Agujón needlefish, Atlantic agujón in English
Aiguille voyeuse in French
Aiguille voyeuse, Grande orphie in French
Atlantic agujon in English
Atlantic agujon in English
Atlantic agujon in English
Black-finned Long-tom in English
Grande orphie in French
Guepi barahans in language.
Guepi blou in language.
Guepi rondó in language.
Keel-jawed Long Tom in English
Keel-jawed Long-tom in English
Keel-jawed needlefish in English
Keeljaw Longtom in English
Orphie in French
Orphie in French
Peixe-agulha-pelágico in Portuguese
Raffeeda in Arabic
Vasilozageta in Greek, Modern (1453-)
agujon in English
agujon in English
agujon needlefish in English
agujon needlefish in English
agujón in Spanish
agujón in Spanish
agujón del Atlántico in Spanish
agujón del Atlántico in Spanish
agujón del Atlántico in Spanish
agulhão in Portuguese
agulhão-branco in Portuguese
agulhão-lambaio in Portuguese
houndfish in English
jehlice jehlovitá in Czech
keeljawed longtom in English
keeljawed longtom in English
peixe-agulha in Portuguese
sininokkakala in Finnish
Βασιλοζαργάνα in Greek, Modern (1453-)
Βασιλοζαργάνα in Greek, Modern (1453-)
Узкорылый тилозур in Russian
חניתן דק in Hebrew
חניתן דק in Hebrew
黑背叉尾鶴鱵 in Chinese
Agujon Needlefish in English
Agujon Needlefish in English
Aguglia Imperiale in Italian
Aguja Imperial in Spanish

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  3. McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  4. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  5. Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354.
  6. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  7. van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374
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