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Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824
Taxonomic Serial No.: 165550

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Stenocaulus Ogilby, 1908
	Common Name(s):	common needlefishes [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2004

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Actinopterygii – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées
	Class	Teleostei
	Superorder	Acanthopterygii
	Order	Beloniformes – aiguilles de mer, orphies, needlefishes
	Suborder	Belonoidei
	Superfamily	Scomberesocoidea
	Family	Belonidae – needlefishes, agujones, aiguillettes
	Genus	Strongylura van Hasselt, 1824 – common needlefishes
		Direct Children:
	Species	Strongylura anastomella (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846) – Pacific needlefish
	Species	Strongylura exilis (Girard, 1854) – agujón californiano, California needlefish, sierrita
	Species	Strongylura fluviatilis (Regan, 1903)
	Species	Strongylura hubbsi Collette, 1974 – agujón maya, Maya needlefish
	Species	Strongylura incisa (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846)
	Species	Strongylura krefftii (Günther, 1866) – freshwater longtom, long tom
	Species	Strongylura leiura (Bleeker, 1850) – squaretail alligator gar
	Species	Strongylura marina (Walbaum, 1792) – Atlantic needlefish, agujón verde, silver gar
	Species	Strongylura notata (Poey, 1860) – agujón negro, redfin needlefish, agujón de aletas rojas
	Species	Strongylura scapularis (Jordan and Gilbert, 1882)
	Species	Strongylura senegalensis (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846)
	Species	Strongylura strongylura (van Hasselt, 1823) – blackspot longtom
	Species	Strongylura timucu (Walbaum, 1792) – timucu, agujón timucú, longjaw, timucú
	Species	Strongylura urvillii (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846)

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Wayne C. Starnes
	Notes:	Research Curator of Fishes, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Laboratory, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA
	Reference for:	Strongylura

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)
	Acquired:	2004
	Notes:	http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/
	Reference for:	Strongylura

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Strongylura

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes
	Publication Date:	2003
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
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	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:	As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998
	Reference for:	Strongylura

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Collette, Bruce B.
	Publication Date:	2003
	Article/Chapter Title:	Family Belonidae Bonaparte 1832: Needlefishes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes, no. 16
	Page(s):	1-22
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	1545-150X
	Notes:	Submitted as a CD-ROM that meets the requirements of Article 8.6 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999)
	Reference for:	Strongylura

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N.
	Publication Date:	1990
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Genera of Recent Fishes
	Page(s):	iii + 697
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, CA, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-23-8
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Strongylura

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N., ed.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Article/Chapter Title:	Catalog of Fishes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3
	Page(s):	2905
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, California, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-47-5
	Notes:	Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932
	Reference for:	Strongylura

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Nelson, Joseph S.
	Publication Date:	1994
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Fishes of the World, Third Edition
	Page(s):	xvii + 600
	Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons
	Publication Place:	New York, New York, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-471-54713-1
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Strongylura

Geographic Information


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Comments


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