[3] S. marina is found along western Atlantic coastal waters from Maine to southern Brazil, including areas along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

[8] As juveniles, the diet of S. marina consists of 70% shrimp, mysids, and amphipods and 30% fish, while adults are exclusively piscivorous.

[9] The predators of S. marina include larger piscivorous fish such as the Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus).

[12] Anguilliform locomotion is widespread among various aquatic animals and it represents a convergent strategy for being able to move through the water.

The Atlantic Needlefish elongated teleost is related to the flying fishes that reside in the surface of water of coastal marine environments.

The Atlantic Needlefish is a unique anguilliform swimmer that possesses through it prominent fins, which lives in coastal surface-waters, and can be able to propel itself across the surfaces of water to be able to escape predation.

[12] Females lay eggs that have many long, filamentous tendrils which attach to floating vegetation or other submerged objects and organisms.

[1] Located is Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, the Atlantic Needlefish spend majority of their time offshore.

However, few days before the full moon, large schools of the Atlantic Needlefish gather at particular beaches around the gulf to spawn.

[15] The Atlantic needlefish are predatory schooling fish with an elongated slender jaw that have been known to leap out of the surfaces of water at incredible fast speeds.