Tylosurus crocodilus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Beloniformes; Belonidae; Tylosurus; Tylosurus crocodilus; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603734; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFCEFFEA98EAFD98FB4E333C

Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur, 1821). 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). Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 96, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008