Hemiramphus balao Lesueur, 1821

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2233

Hemiramphus balao Lesueur, 1821

Irvine name. Not listed in book although specimen found.

Reference material. Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 269)— BMNH 1963.10 .18.1 (one: 297 mm SL, 173 mm BL). Listed in Collette (1965) as ‘probably Ghana’. (Provenance of specimen was found on a typed list from Irvine dated September 1938, which is in the Fish Section correspondence archives.)

Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic known from the Canary Islands and also from Ivory Coast southwards to Angola. Also known in the western Atlantic from New York to Brazil (Collette, 1965).