Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Beloniformes > Belonidae > Platybelone argalus > Platybelone argalus platyura

Platybelone argalus platyura (Stickfish; Needlefish; Longtom; Keeltail needlefish; Keeled needlefish; Flat-tailed needle fish; Flat-tailed longtom)

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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Predators

Trichiurus margarites (hairtail)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lecithostaphylus nitens[3]
Pseudobucephalopsis belonnis[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Feeding ecology of hairtail Trichiurus margarites and largehead hairtail Trichiurus lepturus in the Beibu Gulf, the South China Sea, YAN Yunrong (颜云榕), HOU Gang (侯刚), CHEN Junlan (陈骏岚), LU Huosheng (卢伙胜), JIN Xianshi (金显仕), Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, Vol. 29 No. 1, P. 174-183, 2011
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0