Tylosurus crocodilus Houndfish , Hound Needlefish, Crocodile Needlefish

Tylosurus crocodilusis commonly referred to as Houndfish , Hound Needlefish, Crocodile Needlefish. Difficulty in the aquarium: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only. A aquarium size of at least 10000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

3758 

AphiaID:

159259 

Scientific:

Tylosurus crocodilus 

German:

Krokodil-Hornhecht 

English:

Houndfish , Hound Needlefish, Crocodile Needlefish 

Category:

Beloniformes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beloniformes (Order) > Belonidae (Family) > Tylosurus (Genus) > crocodilus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Péron & Lesueur, ), 1821 

Occurrence:

Hong Kong, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Kuwait, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Benin, El Salvador, Ghana, Sint Eustatius and Saba, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Austral Islands, Australia, Bahrain, Bali, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Christmas Islands, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Komodo (Komodo Island), Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marquesas Islands, Marschall Islands, Martinique, Maumere, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New South Wales (Australia), Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Northern Territory (Australia), Ogasawara Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Queensland (Australia), Raja Amat, Rodriguez, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Aegan Sea (Mediterranean), The Bahamas, The Bangai Archipelago, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, the Society Islands, Timor, Togean Islands, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuamoto Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and Futuna, Western Australia, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

0 - 13 Meter 

Size:

31.5" - 59.06" (80cm - 150cm) 

Weight:

6.35 kg 

Temperature:

78.8 °F - 84.2 °F (26°C - 29°C) 

Food:

Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Fish eggs, Fish larvae, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 

Tank:

2199.78 gal (~ 10000L)  

Difficulty:

suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Tylosurus acus
• 
  Tylosurus choram
  Hornhecht
• 
  Tylosurus crocodilus
  Krokodil-Hornhecht
• Tylosurus fodiator
• Tylosurus gavialoides
• Tylosurus pacificus
• Tylosurus punctulatus

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2011-06-20 10:20:23 

Last edit:

2022-03-01 14:15:20 

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