[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Pisces
     Class Osteichthyes Huxley, 1880 - bony fishes see [unranked] Euteleostomi
       Order Beloniformes Berg, 1937 - needlefishes
         Family Belonidae Regan, 1911 - needlefishes
           Genus Tylosurus Cocco, 1833
             1 Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803)
             2 Tylosurus choram (Rüppell, 1837)
             3 Tylosurus imperialis (Rafinesque, 1810) see Tylosurus acus imperialis (Rafinesque, 1810)