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Belonidae
Needlefish
Strongylura leiurus
Fish Reaching One Hundred Centimeters in Australian Waters
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Elongated
LargeNeedlefish is a fish found around Indo-West Pacific. The largest recorded length is 100 cm. Its body is an elongated body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Belonidae
- Genus
- Strongylura
- Maximum length
- 100 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Somalia (Ref. 30573 ) and Tanzania to Durban, South Africa (Ref. 3130 ) east to Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and southeast Asia to New Guinea, Australia, and the Philippines. Reported from southern China (Ref. 5317 ). The Australian population is regarded as subspecies Strongylura leiura ferox by Parin (1967) (Ref. 1602 ).
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