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Tylosurus crocodilus fodiator
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Tylosurus crocodilus fodiator

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Tylosurus imperialis melanotus
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Tylosurus imperialis melanotus
Tylosurus crocodilus fodiator
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Tylosurus crocodilus fodiator

Tylosurus pacificus
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Tylosurus pacificus
Tylosurus
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Tylosurus
Kinds
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Overview
Main identification features
  • body rounded
  • tail base with keel
  • pelvics large, forked
  • tail fin forked
TYLOSURUS

NEEDLEFISHES, HOUNDFISHES

Body elongate, cylindrical; beak medium length; no gill rakers; dorsal and anal fins with triangular front lobes; dorsal fin with 18-24 rays; tail base with large keel on each side; tail strongly forked, lower lobe larger; pelvic fins large, forked; juveniles with large dark rear lobe on dorsal fin.

A circumtropical genus with five species. Three species are present in the tropical eastern Pacific, one endemic and one circumtropical species as an Indo-Pacific subspecies and one circumtropical species as an endemic subspecies.


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