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Asian needlefish

Xenentodon cancila

Classification

Family
Belonidae

Xenentodon cancila, the freshwater garfish, is a species of needlefish found in freshwater and brackish habitats in South and Southeast Asia. Common names As a reasonably popular aquarium fish, Xenentodon cancila has been traded under a variety of common names, including needlefish, silver needlefish, Asian freshwater needlefish, needlenose halfbeak, freshwater gar, needlenose gar and numerous others. While belonging to the same family as the marine needlefish known in Europe as gar or garpike, Belone belone, these fish are much more distantly related to other fishes sometimes called…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 1