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Hyporhamphus balinensis

Description

Hyporhamphus balinensis (Bleeker 1858) —Balinese garfish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from off Cape St. George, New Ireland as Hemirhamphus balinensis by Munro (1958: 135); reported from Kavieng, New Ireland by Parin et al. (1980: 59).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 3.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Caroline and Cook islands, north to Philippines, south to Vanuatu. 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

  • Munro, I. S. R. (1958) The fishes of the New Guinea region. Fishery Bulletin, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1, 97 - 369.
  • 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.