Hemiramphus
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165459 via WoRMS external link
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.W CalCOFI holds 18 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1965 and 2006, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 18
- observations
- 18
- records
- 1965–2006
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Hemiramphus saltator most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125695")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125695'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Hemiramphus saltator most observed
- sp Hemiramphus saltator Longfin halfbeak17
- sp Hemiramphus depauperatus Polynesian halfbeak1
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Hemiramphidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hyporhamphus (Hyporhamphus) · source
- Photo · renjus box · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Hemiramphus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1347384823
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗