The garfish (Belone belone), also known as the garpike, needlefish or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters.
Lives close to the surface and has a migratory pattern similar to the mackerel (Ref. 35388). Feeds on small fishes, particularly clupeids and Engraulis (in the ...
Belone
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Belone is a genus of needlefish common in brackish and marine waters mainly found in the eastern Atlantic ocean to Mediterranean and Black Sea, as well. It is one of ten genera in the family Belonidae. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Belone
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Belonidae
Genus: Belone; G. Cuvier, 1816
Kingdom: Animalia
Order: Beloniformes
Phylum: Chordata
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The garfish (Belone belone), or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the ...
Belone is a genus of needlefish common in brackish and marine waters mainly found in the eastern Atlantic ocean to Mediterranean and Black Sea, as well.
A migratory species, Belone belone, may be found throughout the British Isles during summer but during winter is only seen in southern areas.
Belone belone. Garfish. View Profile. overview characteristics geography timeline information & media contact. Overview. Scientific Name. Belone belone. Common ...
Garfish, European species of needlefish.
(of Esox belone Linnaeus, 1760) Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, ...
a sea fish (either the pipefish or the gar Belone belone), literally, needle," from bel- (base of uncertain meaning and origin) + -onē, suffix of instruments.