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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Belonidae

Needlefishes

WoRMS 125451ITIS 165546GBIF 7190key worms:125451
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165546 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cololabis saira

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Belonidae
Photo · Alberto Alcalá · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Needlefish or long toms are piscivorous fishes primarily associated with very shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2019, across 2 taxa under it.R

3
observations
3
records
1987–2019
years
1
datasets
2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125451")