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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Hemiramphus saltator

Longfin halfbeak

WoRMS 272178ITIS 165463GBIF 2368959key worms:272178
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165463 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hyporhamphus (Hyporhamphus)
Longfin halfbeak48 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Hemiramphus saltator
Photo · Alberto Alcalá · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Longfin halfbeak is an ocean-going species of fish in the family Hemiramphidae native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 17 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1965 and 2006, as larva.R

17
observations
17
records
17
sampling events
1965–2006
years
1
datasets
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 17 obs · 17 events · 1965–2006 · larva
    name used: Hemiramphus saltator Longfin halfbeak · code 177

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:272178%22