Strongylura exilis (Girard 1854). California Needlefish, Pike Needlefish; Agujón Bravo, Agujón Californiano, Marao de California Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Eastern Pacific Ocean; from San Francisco, USA, to northern Chile, including the Revillagigedo, Cocos and Galapagos islands; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) PN (Pacific); 0–5 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2019), population trend unknown. Literature: Robertson & Allen (2015: 844; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Froese & Pauly (2023; listed, including information on identification, distribution and ecology).

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788