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Belonidae Bonaparte, 1835

125451  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125451)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Beloniformes (Order)
  11. Belonidae (Family)
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  1. Genus Ablennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887
  2. Genus Belone Cuvier, 1816
  3. Genus Belonion Collette, 1966
  4. Genus Petalichthys Regan, 1904
  5. Genus Platybelone Fowler, 1919
  6. Genus Potamorrhaphis Günther, 1866
  7. Genus Pseudotylosurus Fernández-Yépez, 1948
  8. Genus Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824
  9. Genus Tylosurus Cocco, 1833
  10. Genus Xenentodon Regan, 1911
  11. Genus Ablenes accepted as Ablennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887 (misspelling)
  12. Genus Athlennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887 accepted as Ablennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887 (not available)
  13. Genus Belona Cuvier, 1816 accepted as Belone Cuvier, 1816 (misspelling)
  14. Genus Blennes accepted as Ablennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887 (misspelling)
  15. Genus Deltatylosurus Martín Salaza, 1954 accepted as Pseudotylosurus Fernández-Yépez, 1948
  16. Genus Mastaccembelus Klein, 1776 accepted as Belone Cuvier, 1816
  17. Genus Potamorhaphis accepted as Potamorrhaphis Günther, 1866 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  18. Genus Potamorrhapis accepted as Potamorrhaphis Günther, 1866 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  19. Genus Pseudotylusurus accepted as Pseudotylosurus Fernández-Yépez, 1948 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  20. Genus Rhaphiobelone Fowler, 1934 accepted as Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824
  21. Genus Stenocaulus Ogilby, 1908 accepted as Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824
  22. Genus Strongylurus accepted as Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824 (misspelling)
  23. Genus Thalassosteus Jordan, Evermann & Tanaka, 1927 accepted as Tylosurus Cocco, 1833
  24. Genus Thallasosteus accepted as Thalassosteus Jordan, Evermann & Tanaka, 1927 accepted as Tylosurus Cocco, 1833 (misspelling)
  25. Genus Tylosaurus accepted as Tylosurus Cocco, 1833 (misspelling)
  26. Genus Xenenthodon accepted as Xenentodon Regan, 1911 (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Tropical and temperate fishes of the surface layer ranging from open ocean to freshwater. Small scales. Without isolated...  
Description Tropical and temperate fishes of the surface layer ranging from open ocean to freshwater. Small scales. Without isolated finlets. Dorsal fin usually with 10-26 rays. Anal fin usually with 14-23 rays. Wide mouth opening; jaws elongate and with many needlelike teeth; 2 species with the lower jaw longer than the upper. Slender silvery bodys shaded a darker bluish or greenish dorsally. When alarmed or attracted to lights at night, they are capable of skipping across the surface at high speed and have been known to impale fishermen with sometimes fatal results (Ref. 1602). Surface-dwelling predators of small fishes, also known as longtoms or sea gars. Important food for larger fishes. To 1.3 m maximum length in Tylosurus crocodilus. Marine: ISSCAAP 39, freshwater ISSCAAP 13. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Belonidae Bonaparte, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125451 on 2024-11-26
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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van der Land, Jacob
2015-04-17 08:48:21Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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taxonomy source Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [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, <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 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Unreviewed
Description Tropical and temperate fishes of the surface layer ranging from open ocean to freshwater. Small scales. Without isolated finlets. Dorsal fin usually with 10-26 rays. Anal fin usually with 14-23 rays. Wide mouth opening; jaws elongate and with many needlelike teeth; 2 species with the lower jaw longer than the upper. Slender silvery bodys shaded a darker bluish or greenish dorsally. When alarmed or attracted to lights at night, they are capable of skipping across the surface at high speed and have been known to impale fishermen with sometimes fatal results (Ref. 1602). Surface-dwelling predators of small fishes, also known as longtoms or sea gars. Important food for larger fishes. To 1.3 m maximum length in Tylosurus crocodilus. Marine: ISSCAAP 39, freshwater ISSCAAP 13. [details]
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LanguageName 
English needlefishes  [details]
German Hornhechte  [details]
Japanese ダツ科  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål horngjelfamilien  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk horngjelfamilien  [details]
Swedish näbbgäddfiskar  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Belonidae) 
To Genbank 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Belonidae FIN035252 Slide 35 mm) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Belonidae RAD118684-001) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed
To NMNH Extant Collection (Belonidae FIN035252 Slide 35 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Belonidae FIN035252 Slide 35 mm)
Hosted externally
To NMNH Extant Collection (Belonidae RAD118684-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Belonidae RAD118684-001)
Hosted externally
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