| 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[1]
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Tylosurus is a genus of needlefish, one of ten in the family Belonidae. They are found worldwide in tropical and warmer temperate seas[2] and two species have been recorded as Lessepsian migrants in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.[3]
- ^ 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.