Tylosurus choram, the Red Sea houndfish, is a species of needlefish from the familyBelonidae. A marine fish bluish in color with a long slender body, and a pointed long toothed beak, found in most temperate, warm seas, and sometimes rivers, it is found in abundance in the Red Sea.
It is a fast predator swimming in small schools near the water surface.[2] Like other species of needlefish this species is oviparous, laying eggs which attach themselves to objects in the water by means of filaments which cover the outer layer of the egg.[1]Tylosurus choram is found in the Red Sea and in coastal waters around the Arabian Peninsula to the Gulf of Oman.[1] It has been reported twice, forty years apart, in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel.[3][4] This species was described as Belone choram by Eduard Rüppell in 1837 with the type locality given as the Red Sea,[5] the specific namechoram is Arabic for needlefish.[6]
^المعجم الكبير لمجمع اللغة العربية في مصر حرف الخاء الطبعة الأولى 2004 ص 281 The Big Dictionary of the Egyption Arabic Academy, First Edition (2004), the letter (خ) page 281, the word خُرْم
^Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (15 June 2019). "Order BELONIFORMES (Needlefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
