WoRMS taxon details
Belonidae Bonaparte, 1835
- Genus Ablennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887
- Genus Belone Cuvier, 1816
- Genus Belonion Collette, 1966
- Genus Petalichthys Regan, 1904
- Genus Platybelone Fowler, 1919
- Genus Potamorrhaphis Günther, 1866
- Genus Pseudotylosurus Fernández-Yépez, 1948
- Genus Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824
- Genus Tylosurus Cocco, 1833
- Genus Xenentodon Regan, 1911
- Genus Ablenes accepted as Ablennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887 (misspelling)
- Genus Athlennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887 accepted as Ablennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887 (not available)
- Genus Belona Cuvier, 1816 accepted as Belone Cuvier, 1816 (misspelling)
- Genus Blennes accepted as Ablennes Jordan & Fordice, 1887 (misspelling)
- Genus Deltatylosurus Martín Salaza, 1954 accepted as Pseudotylosurus Fernández-Yépez, 1948
- Genus Mastaccembelus Klein, 1776 accepted as Belone Cuvier, 1816
- Genus Potamorhaphis accepted as Potamorrhaphis Günther, 1866 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Potamorrhapis accepted as Potamorrhaphis Günther, 1866 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Pseudotylusurus accepted as Pseudotylosurus Fernández-Yépez, 1948 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Rhaphiobelone Fowler, 1934 accepted as Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824
- Genus Stenocaulus Ogilby, 1908 accepted as Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824
- Genus Strongylurus accepted as Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824 (misspelling)
- Genus Thalassosteus Jordan, Evermann & Tanaka, 1927 accepted as Tylosurus Cocco, 1833
- Genus Thallasosteus accepted as Thalassosteus Jordan, Evermann & Tanaka, 1927 accepted as Tylosurus Cocco, 1833 (misspelling)
- Genus Tylosaurus accepted as Tylosurus Cocco, 1833 (misspelling)
- 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. (2025). FishBase. Belonidae Bonaparte, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125451 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
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]
Taxonomy
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 
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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]
additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., 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]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | needlefishes | [details] |
| German | Hornhechte | [details] |
| Japanese | ダツ科 | [details] |
| Norwegian Bokmål | horngjelfamilien | [details] |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | horngjelfamilien | [details] |
| Swedish | näbbgäddfiskar | [details] |
