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Tylosurus acus acus (Lacepède, 1803) 
AphiaID: 236459

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beloniformes (Order) > Belonidae (Family) > Tylosurus (Genus) > Tylosurus acus (Species)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subspecies
Parent Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803) accepted as Tylosurus acus acus (Lacepède, 1803)
Synonymised
taxa
  Belone altipinna Poey, 1860
Belone carribea Lesueur, 1821
Belone jonesii Goode, 1877
Belone latimana Poey, 1860
Sphyraena acus Lacepède, 1803
Strongylura acus (Lacepède, 1803)
Tylosaurus acus (Lacepède, 1803) (misspelling)
Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803)
Sources  basis of record: Relini, Giulio (2006). Agnatha Osteichthyes, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana., available online at http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/ [details]

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

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

from synonym: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English agujon needlefish (from synonym)  [details]
Hebrew חניתן דק (from synonym)  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Βασιλοζαργάνα (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Djibouti (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gazi Bay [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To FishBase
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236459
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-01-19 14:00:33Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2009-06-16 07:05:49Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Tylosurus acus 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=236459 on 2013-05-22
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