Tylosurus crocodilus
Hound needlefish
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Péron & Lesueur, 1821)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 159259 ↗
Photo: (c) Philippe Bourjon, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (iNaturalist)
13
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1901
First collected
1992
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Tylosurus crocodilus, most mentions first.
1997
Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic speciesColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Two centuries of collecting
1900s1990s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1901 by U.S. Fish Commission (Oʻahu).