Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Hemiramphidae

Halfbeaks

WoRMS 125453ITIS 553172GBIF 7191key worms:125453

2026-08-05: itis_id 553172 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hyporhamphus (Hyporhamphus)

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 Hemiramphidae — Photo · Zakqary Roy · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Hemiramphidae is a family of fishes that are commonly called halfbeaks, spipe fish or spipefish. They are a geographically widespread and numerically abundant family of epipelagic fish inhabiting warm waters around the world.W CalCOFI holds 734 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2006, as larva, across 8 taxa under it.R

734
observations: 734
records: 5
sampling events: 1951–2006
years: 1
datasets: 6
species under it: larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ichthyoplankton 5 obs · 5 events · 1951–2002 · larva
name used: Hemiramphidae Halfbeaks · code 170

Under it · 3 taxa

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

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125453%22

Hemiramphidae

Under it · 3 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
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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/.