Garfish
Species of fish / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the large freshwater fish, see Gar. For the New Zealand fish, see Hyporhamphus ihi. For the Australian fish, see Hyporhamphus melanochir.
The garfish (Belone belone), also known as the garpike, needlefish or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Black, and Baltic Seas.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Beloniformes |
Family: | Belonidae |
Genus: | Belone |
Species: | B. belone |
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Belone belone (Linnaeus, 1761) | |
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