Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur, 1821)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 96

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scientific name	Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur, 1821)
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Crocodile Needlefish, Houndfish, Hound Needlefish, or Mexican Needlefish. To 159 cm (62.6 in) ( Robertson and Allen 2008). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Isla de Cedros, central Baja California ( Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015) to Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995) to northern Chile ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and Islas Galápagos (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine and brackish waters ( Fricke et al. 2011); depth: 0–3 m (10 ft) ( Mundy 2005).

References

Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.

Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M. & Wantiez, L. (2011) Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, NS 4, 341 - 463.

Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.

Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.

Ramirez-Valdez, A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Palacios-Salgado, D. S., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Dominguez Guerro, I., Hinojosa Arango, G., Correa S., F., Villasenor-Derbez, J. C., Cota-Nieto, J. J. & Hernadez-Velasco, A. (2015) The nearshore fishes of the Cedros Archipelago (north-eastern Pacific) and their biogeographic affinities. CalCOFI Reports, 56, 143 - 167.

Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.