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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Hemiramphus

WoRMS 125695ITIS 165459key worms:125695
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165459 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 Hemiramphus
Photo · renjus box · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125695")