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Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803) 
AphiaID: 126378

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beloniformes (Order) > Belonidae (Family) > Tylosurus (Genus)
Status alternate representation
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Tylosurus acus acus (Lacepède, 1803)
Rank Species
Parent Tylosurus Cocco, 1833
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: 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. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English agujon needlefish  [details]
Hebrew חניתן דק  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Βασιλοζαργάνα  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Subspecies Tylosurus acus acus (Lacepède, 1803)
Subspecies Tylosurus acus imperialis (Rafinesque, 1810)
Subspecies Tylosurus acus melanotus (Bleeker, 1850)
Subspecies Tylosurus acus rafale Collette & Parin, 1970

Subspecies Tylosurus acus pacificus (Steindachner, 1876) accepted as Tylosurus pacificus (Steindachner, 1876)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Chagos [details]
Djibouti [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
Host of  Caligodes laciniatus (Krøyer, 1863) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernanthropus tylosuri Richiardi, 1880 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeolophus sultanus (Milne Edwards, 1840) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus tylosuri (Rangnekar, 1956) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Colobomatus goodingi Cressey & Collette, 1970 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Nothobomolochus gibber (Shiino, 1957) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Parabomolochus constrictus Cressey & Collette, 1970 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Parabomolochus bellones (Burmeister, 1833) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (80 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA to Brazil [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126378
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
2013-01-08 14:50:09Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
2013-05-30 06:55:16Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126378 on 2013-06-18
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