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Hyporhamphus affinis

Description

Hyporhamphus affinis (Günther 1866) —Tropical halfbeak

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from southern New Ireland by Parin et al. (1980: 59).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 3.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to New Caledonia; immigrated into Mediterranean Sea through Suez Canal. Found in schools, mainly above coral reefs, 0– 6 m depth. Marine.

Notes

Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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References

  • Parin, N. V., Collette, B. B. & Shcherbachev, Yu. N. (1980) Preliminary review of the marine halfbeaks (Hemiramphidae, Beloniformes) of the tropical Indo-West-Pacific. [In Russian, with English summary.] Trudy Instituta Okeanologii Imeni P. P. Shirshova, 97, 7 - 173.