Garfish
Scientific name: Belone belone (Linnaeus, 1760)
Overview
The garfish, 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.
From the Wikipedia article “Garfish”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
Common names
Also known in English as Garpike, sea needle.
Names in other languages (10)
- Arabic
- جارفيش
- Chinese
- 尖嘴針魚
- French
- Aguglia, Aguia, Aiguille, Aiguille de Mer, aiguillette, aiquille
- German
- gewöhnlicher Hornhecht, Grünknochen, Hornhecht
- Japanese
- ガーフィッシュ
- Persian
- سوزنماهی
- Portuguese
- agulha
- Russian
- sargan, Европейский сарган
- Spanish
- aguja, Guya
- Turkish
- zargana
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q643373, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Garfish”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Krüger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Misigon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026