family Belonidae


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Noun1.family Belonidae - ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater garsfamily Belonidae - ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars
Belonidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Synentognathi, Synentognathi - order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks
needlefish, gar, billfish - elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
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The family Belonidae includes 32 species in all tropical and temperate seas, a few in freshwater, four species (Belone belone, B.
Age, Growth and Mortality of Garfish, Belone euxini Gunther, 1866 in the Central Black Sea, Turkey
The most frequently consumed prey was flying fishes (belonging to the family Exocoetidae; 42.7 and 19.2% according to PRA and DO, respectively) and needlefish (belonging to the family Belonidae; 38.5 and 6.4% according to PRA and DO, respectively).
Inter-insular variation of the diet of osprey Pandion haliaetus in the Canarian archipelago
MsF 2.24 Order Lampridiformes MsF 5.29 Family Trachipteridae MsF 5.29 Desmodesma polystictum MsF 5.29 Order Beloniformes Family Belonidae MiF 5.29 Strongylura spp.
Food habits and consumption rates of common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the eastern Pacific Ocean

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