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Tylosurus melanotus (Bleeker, 1850)

Keel-jawed needle fish
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Viet Nam country information

Common names: Black-backed needlefish, Cá Nhói lưng đen, Keel-jawed needle fish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: occasional (usually not seen) | Ref: Nguyen, H.P. and N.T. Nguyen, 1994
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from the Gulf of Tonkin and central Vietnam (Ref. 9706).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/vm.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Duong, T.T., 2001
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Keel-jawed, Black-finned long-tom, Needlefish, ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Beloniformes (Needle fishes) > Belonidae (Needlefishes)
Etymology: Tylosurus: Greek, tylos = callus + Greek, oura = tail (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Bleeker.

Issue
Considered mostly as a subspecies in the literature. Therefore the upraise at species rank here is considered as a provisionally accepted name, until more works are conducted on T. acus susbepcies to fix their status.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

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