Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Beloniformes

WoRMS 10320ITIS 553128key worms:10320

2026-08-05: itis_id 553128 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · seung9park · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Oryzias latipes

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Beloniformes — Photo · Alberto Alcalá · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Beloniformes is an order composed of six families of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish:Adrianichthyidae Belonidae (needlefish) Exocoetidae (flyingfishes) Hemiramphidae (halfbeaks) Scomberesocidae (sauries) Zenarchopteridae…W CalCOFI holds 9,477 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2020, across 31 taxa under it.R

9,477
observations: 9,477
records: 1951–2020
years: 2
datasets: 23
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 4 taxa

F Scomberesocidae Sauries7,547
F Exocoetidae Flyingfishes1,193
F Hemiramphidae Halfbeaks734
F Belonidae Needlefishes3

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:10320")

Beloniformes

Observed in

Under it · 4 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.