Hemiramphus lutkei (Valenciennes, 1846)

Yennawar, Prasanna, Mohapatra, Anil & Tudu, Prasad Chandra, 2017, An account of Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, West Bengal, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 4-4 : 4-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117289

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10913829

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B20633-FF83-FFCF-FCB8-E885FA8986E6

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Felipe

scientific name

Hemiramphus lutkei (Valenciennes, 1846)
status

 

7. Hemiramphus lutkei (Valenciennes, 1846) View in CoL Lutke’s halfbeak (Figure 8)

Material examined: 1 ex., 09.01.1993; Mohana, Digha; Reg. No. MARC /ZSI/F1752 .

Description: An elongate fish with a greatly prolonged, beak-like lower jaw; upper jaw short, triangular and scaleless; preorbital ridge absent. Pectoral fins long, reaching beyond anterior margin of nasal pit when folded forward. Dark bluish above, silvery white below, with no spots or vertical bars on sides. Beak dark with a bright red fleshy tip; upper lobe of caudal fin bluish.

Distribution: Pacific Ocean: ranging eastward to the Gilbert Islands and Samoa, north to southern Japan.

Remarks: The fish is minor commercial.

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