Animalia > Chordata > Beloniformes > Belonidae > Strongylura > Strongylura strongylura

Strongylura strongylura (Spottail needlefish; Roundtail needlefish; Light-colored garfish; Gar fish; Full beak Gar fish; Full beak; Blackspot longtom; Garfish; Banded needlefish; Round-tail alligator garfish; Neddlefish)

Synonyms:
Language: Agutaynen; Arabic; Banton; Bikol; Cebuano; Chavacano; Danish; Davawenyo; French; Gujarati; Hiligaynon; Ilokano; Kagayanen; Kannada; Kapampangan; Kuyunon; Mahl; Malay; Malayalam; Mandarin Chinese; Marathi; Oriya; Russian; Sinhalese; Spanish; Tagalog; Tamil; Telugu; Thai; Vietnamese; Waray-waray

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve 123722 Viet Nam  
Prince Regent River Nature Reserve Ia 1428602 Western Australia, Australia  
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Prey / Diet

Predators

Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark)[1]
Rhizoprionodon porosus (Snook shark)[1]
Sepioteuthis sepioidea (Caribbean reef squid)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cucullanus hians[2]
Neoaxine constricta[2]
Neoechinorhynchus tylosuri[2]
Prolecitha obesa[2]
Tylosuricola haikouensis[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, 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