Strongylura exilis (Girard, 1854) .

California Needlefish or Pike Needlefish. To 91.4 cm (3 ft) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). San Francisco, northern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to northern Chile (Sielfeld 2010), including Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (nightlight; 47-158), intertidal to 100 m (328 ft) (min.: Allen 1999; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).