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Needlefish (family Belonidae) or long toms [2] are piscivorous fishes primarily associated with very shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea. Some genera include species found in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments (e.g., Strongylura), while a few genera are confined to freshwater rivers and streams, including Belonion, Potamorrhaphis, and Xenentodon. [3]
The garfish (Belone belone), also known as the garpike, needlefish or sea needle, is a pelagic, ... Garfish are pelagic fish which live close to the water surface.
As a reasonably popular aquarium fish, Xenentodon cancila has been traded under a variety of common names, including needlefish, [3] silver needlefish, [4] Asian freshwater needlefish, [3] needlenose halfbeak, [5] freshwater gar, [5] needlenose gar and numerous others.
The Atlantic needlefish (Strongylura marina) is a common demersal needlefish species common in marinas and other areas with minimal currents.Body very elongated, rounded; extremely elongated jaws form a long beak, with numerous needle-like teeth; rear of the top jaw-bone by being exposed when the mouth is closed.
Needlefish can be triggered to leap out of the water toward lights at night. They also may jump when they sense predators or when there is a disturbance on the surface of the water, Brazilian ...
Strongylura exilis (Girard, 1854) (Californian needlefish) Strongylura fluviatilis (Regan, 1903) Strongylura hubbsi Collette, 1974 (Maya needlefish) Strongylura incisa (Valenciennes, 1846) (reef needlefish) Strongylura krefftii (Günther, 1866) (long tom) Strongylura leiura (Bleeker, 1850) (banded needlefish) Strongylura marina (Walbaum, 1792 ...
Boaters trolling Needlefish or similar shad-patterned spoons around the dam have picked a few quality rainbows. Crappie seem to be getting more active and are holding around structure in 20 to 25 ...
A surfer attempts to thread a tube section at Lance's Left, a reef break in Katiet, Indonesia, in 2023. Last week an Italian surfer died after being impaled by a needlefish in the waters off ...