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HWT-FISH-0066

Hound needlefish

Tylosurus crocodilus

(Pèron & LeSueur, 1821)

Tylosurus crocodilus, iNaturalist observation 189600465 (Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Red Sea, 28 October 2023). Identified by the iNaturalist community (research grade, at least two agreeing identifiers): a community identification, weaker than a museum determination. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters.
Tylosurus crocodilus, iNaturalist observation 189600465 (Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Red Sea, 28 October 2023). Identified by the iNaturalist community (research grade, at least two agreeing identifiers): a community identification, weaker than a museum determination. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters. © Edmundas Greimas, some rights reserved (CC BY), via iNaturalist observation 189600465 · CC BY 4.0

Species BELONIDAE Fish accepted scientific name

Quick facts

Saudi context in this record

Naming evidence

Local names recorded for their geographic scope: evidence that the name is used there, not a published record of biological occurrence.

Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea خرم · مسيف · درادي · أبوشري · أبومخيط · خرم طوري · أبو شري · أبو مخيط
Saudi territorial waters, Arabian Gulf حاقول

Occurrence records

The encyclopedia holds no published occurrence record for this taxon in Saudi waters yet.

Measurements and characters

Specimen total length total length (TL)

38.7 cm

Length of a measured specimen, not the maximum length of the species.

أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة لوحات الحصر المصوّرة confidence: officially documented verification: verified

Fishes from Territorial Saudi Red Sea Waters الصفحة المطبوعة 63 confidence: officially documented verification: unverified the evidence is a rendering of what the locator holds, not a verbatim quotation

Documentation status

documented from a photographed and measured specimen

No source is linked to this value.

Names

English common names

Hound needlefish

Local names — Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea

  • خرم Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • مسيف Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • درادي Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • أبوشري Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • أبومخيط Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • خرم طوري Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • أبو شري Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • أبو مخيط Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved

Local names — Saudi territorial waters, Arabian Gulf

  • حاقول Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved

Classification

TylosurusGenus BELONIDAEFamily BeloniformesOrder ActinopterygiiClass ChordataPhylum AnimaliaKingdom

External identifiers
  • National species code: 3303 — Marine Research Centre, Jeddah

The national collection-form code is not a unique identifier; more than one taxon may carry the same value. The only stable identifier here is the HUWAT code.

Conservation

No governed conservation assessment is published for this taxon. The absence of a published assessment is not an assessment of low concern.

Distribution

The encyclopedia holds no published scientific distribution records for this taxon.

This section shows source-backed scientific distribution only. Community observations are not listed here and no scientific distribution is inferred from them.

Others in this family

Taxa of the same family. That is a taxonomic relationship, not a statement of resemblance; the encyclopedia holds no diagnostic characters or lookalike relations yet.

Information not yet documented in this record

These fields exist in the encyclopedia’s model and have not been imported for this taxon yet. Their absence describes the record, not the animal.

Scientific sources

أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة (2011). ط١ ١٤٣٢هـ/٢٠١١م.
استمارة التجميع المرمزة للأسماء المحلية — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية.
Fishes from Territorial Saudi Red Sea Waters (2017). الطبعة الثانية 1438 H - 2017.
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Record last modified: 2026-09-23

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