Species: Strongylura timucu, Timucú needlefish, Timucu needlefish
before eye - v dark; after eye along body - dark stripe
top jaw exposed at rear
A 16-20
scales along center nape 120-185
Strongylura timucu (Walbaum, 1792)
Timucu needlefish
Body very elongate, rounded; extremely elongate jaws form a long beak, with numerous needle-like teeth; rear of top jaw-bone exposed when mouth is closed; no gill rakers; fins without spines; low lobes at front of dorsal and anal fins; dorsal 14-17 rays; anal 16-20 rays; pectoral 10-11; small, rounded pelvic fins; no keel on round tail base; tail fin straight to slightly concave; operculum completely scaled; 120-185 scales along center of nape before dorsal fin; right gonad longer than left.
Blue-green above; a broad dark grey stripe from behind eye along body; bone before eye very dark.
Size: 46 cm.
Habitat: coastal areas and mangroves.
Depth: 0-5 m.
The Gulf of Mexico to Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Water column only
- Surface
- Near Surface
- Habitat
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- Estuary
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Mangrove
- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Continent
- Extends South of GC
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- Also in Brazil
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 46
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
