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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Tylosurus

WoRMS 125690ITIS 165570key worms:125690
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165570 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matt Kolmann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Tylosurus

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).

Tylosurus choram
Photo · Fernando Herranz Martín · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Tylosurus is a genus of needlefish, one of ten in the family Belonidae. They are found worldwide in tropical and warmer temperate seas and two species have been recorded as Lessepsian migrants in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2003 and 2003.R

1
observations
1
records
2003
years
1
datasets

Observed in

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

Under it · 1 taxon

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:125690")