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Hemiramphus
Hemiramphus is a genus of schooling marine fish commonly called halfbeaks, garfish, or ballyhoos, and are members of the family Hemiramphidae. They inhabit the surface of warm temperate and tropical sea, and feed on algae, plankton, and smaller fish. Hemiramphus species are edible but are more important as food fish for larger predatory species including dolphinfish and billfish.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species
Ballyhoo
speciesHemiramphus brasiliensis
Black-barred Halfbeak
speciesHemiramphus far
Longfin Halfbeak
speciesHemiramphus saltator
Tropical Halfbeak
speciesHemiramphus depauperatus
Balao Halfbeak
speciesHemiramphus balao
Lutke's Halfbeak
speciesHemiramphus lutkei
Bermuda Halfbeak
speciesHemiramphus bermudensis
Yellowtip Halfbeak
speciesHemiramphus marginatus
Three-by-two Garfish
speciesHemiramphus robustus
Jumping Halfbeak
speciesHemiramphus archipelagicus
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 88823.