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Hyporhamphus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125696ITIS 165473GBIF 2368819key worms:125696
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165473 via WoRMS external link

Hyporhamphus is a genus of halfbeaks. The species in this genus are distributed throughout the warmer seas of the world, most species being Indo-Pacific and there are some freshwater species.W CalCOFI holds 7 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1964 and 2003, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

7
observations
7
records
4
sampling events
1964–2003
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
larva
life stages
Hyporhamphus meeki from the Gulf of Mexico
Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC NOAA Photo Library · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 4 obs4 events2000–2003larva
    name used: Hyporhamphus · code 194

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125696%22

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 3 taxa · Hyporhamphus pacificus most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Hemiramphidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hyporhamphus (Hyporhamphus) · source
  • Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC NOAA Photo Library · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Hyporhamphus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1358240985
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗