Biology:Rhynchorhamphus arabicus

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Rhynchorhamphus arabicus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beloniformes
Family: Hemiramphidae
Genus: Rhynchorhamphus
Species:
R. arabicus
Binomial name
Rhynchorhamphus arabicus
Parin & Shcherbachev, 1972[1]

Rhynchorhamphus arabicus or Arabian flyingfish is a halfbeak of the family Hemiramphidae of the order Beloniformes.

It is one of the four recognized species of the genus Rhynchorhamphus and can be found in the Western Indian Ocean, near Yemen and Somalia.[2]

References

  1. R. arabicus - The Taxonomicon
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Rhynchorhamphus arabicus" in FishBase. 8 2012 version.

Further reading

Collette, Bruce (January 1976). "Indo-West Pacific Halfbeaks (hemiramphidae) of The Genus Rhynchorhamphus with Descriptions of Two New Species". Bulletin 26 (1): 72–98.  Ritland, Kermit; Leblanc, Marissa; B., Collette (December 2004). "Mating system of four inbreeding monkeyflower (Mimulus) species revealed using ‘progeny-pair’ analysis of highly informative microsatellite markers". Plant Species Biology 19 (3): 72–98,149–157. doi:10.1111/j.1442-1984.2004.00111.x. </ref> Wikidata ☰ Q2677745 entry