Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Strongylura

WoRMS 159253key worms:159253

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

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 Strongylura — Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Strongylura is a genus of needlefishes from the family Belonidae which is distributed throughout the tropical and warmer temperate waters of the world, including some species which live in freshwater.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2019.R

2
observations: 2
records: 1987–2019
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

sp Strongylura exilis California needlefish2

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:159253")

Strongylura

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

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

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