| Tylosurus | |
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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 | |
Tylosurus is a genus of needlefish, one of ten in the family Belonidae. They are found worldwide in tropical and warmer temperate seas and two species have been recorded as Lessepsian migrants in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Species
The seven currently recognized species in this genus are:
- 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
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.
References
- 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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