Garfish

Garfish
	Feeding, in Greece
	1795-1797 illustration
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Division:	Teleostei
Order:	Beloniformes
Family:	Belonidae
Genus:	Belone
Species:	B. belone
Binomial name
	Belone belone; (Linnaeus, 1761)
	The range of the garfish
Synonyms
	List Esox belone Linnaeus, 1761 ; Belone belone belone (Linnaeus, 1761) ; Belone bellone (Linnaeus, 1761) ; Belone longirostris Schinz, 1822 ; Belone acus Risso, 1827 ; Belone vulgaris Fleming, 1828 ; Belone rostrata Faber, 1829 ; Hemiramphus europaeus Yarrell, 1837 ; Belone gracilis Lowe, 1839 ; Belone belone gracilis Lowe, 1839 ; Hemiramphus balticus Hohnbaum-Hornschuch, 1843 ; Hemiramphus behnii Hohnbaum-Hornschuch, 1843 ; Belone vulgaris Valenciennes, 1846 ; Belone undecimradiata Budge, 1848 ; Hemiramphus obtusus Couch, 1848 ; Macrognathus scolopax Gronow, 1854 ; Belone euxini Günther, 1866 ; Belone belone euxini Günther, 1866 ; Belone cornidii Günther, 1866 ; Belone linnei Malm, 1877 ;

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.