Needlefishes, Halfbeaks, and Allies
Beloniformes
Beloniformes is an order composed of six families (and about 264 species) of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish:
Adrianichthyidae (ricefish and medakas)
6 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 301 known species
Needlefishes
familyBelonidae
Halfbeaks
familyHemiramphidae
Flyingfishes
familyExocoetidae
Viviparous Halfbeaks
familyZenarchopteridae
Ricefishes
familyAdrianichthyidae
Sauries
familyScomberesocidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51485.