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Hemiramphus saltator

Longfin halfbeak

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

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
48 cm
max length
Photograph of Hemiramphus saltator
Photo · Alberto Alcalá · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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.

  • 17 obs17 events1965–2006larva
    name used: Hemiramphus saltator Longfin halfbeak · code 177

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:272178%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 48 cm max · transformation 14.5–26 mm
Longfin halfbeak48 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

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.

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Hemiramphus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

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 ↗