Hound Needlefish
Tylosurus crocodilus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Family
- Belonidae
- Genus
- Tylosurus
Where to Find
Found in 90 diving areas across 52 countries and 10 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 11 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 10 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 26 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 1 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 2 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 47 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 1 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 17 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 9 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 1 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 1 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 2 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 3 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 6 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 6 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 11 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 9 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 9 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 1 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 3 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 2 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 4 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 39 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 144 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 6 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 23 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 135 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 9 records
- Utila, Honduras - 142 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 87 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 86 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 4 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 8 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 10 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 6 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 6 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 6 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 6 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 7 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 13 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 4 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 4 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 243 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 9 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 266 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 6 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 4 records
- Huatulco, Mexico - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 28 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 5 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- Port Sudan & Sanganeb, Sudan - 6 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 4 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 4 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 2 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 1 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 9 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 9 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 8 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 16 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 7 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 12 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 3 records
- Subic Bay, Philippines - 12 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 223 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 14 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 6 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records