Hyporhamphus collettei

Hyporhamphus collettei is a halfbeak from the family Hemiramphidae.[2]

Hyporhamphus collettei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beloniformes
Family: Hemiramphidae
Genus: Hyporhamphus
Species:
H. collettei
Binomial name
Hyporhamphus collettei
Banford, 2010[1][2]

The specific name honours the American ichthyologist Bruce Baden Collette.[3]

Found along the Western Atlantic, it is endemic to the nearshore marine waters of Bermuda.[4][2]

References

  1. Nicoas Baily, ed. (2012). "Hyporhamphus collettei". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Hyporhamphus collettei" in FishBase. 8 2012 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (15 June 2019). "Order BELONIFORMES (Needlefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  4. Heidi M. Banford (2010). "Hyporhamphus collettei, a new species of inshore halfbeak (Hemiramphidae) endemic to Bermuda, with comments on the biogeography of the Hyporhamphus unifasciatus species group". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 123 (4): 345–358. doi:10.2988/10-22.1.


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