halfbeak

From half +‎ beak.

halfbeak (plural halfbeaks)

1. (zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.

• acute halfbeak (Hyporhamphus acutus)
• African halfbeak (Hyporhamphus picarti)
• American halfbeak (Hyporhamphus meeki)
• Asian pencil halfbeak (Hyporhamphus intermedius)
• Atlantic silverstripe halfbeak (Hyporhamphus unifasciatus)
• Australian neglected halfbeak (Hyporhamphus neglectissimus)
• balao halfbeak (Hemiramphus balao)
• Balinese halfbeak (Hyporhamphus balinensis)
• ballyhoo halfbeak (Hemiramphus balao)
• ballyhoo halfbeak (Hemiramphus brasiliensis)
• Bangkok halfbeak (Zenarchopterus pappenheimi) (India)
• barred halfbeak (Hemiramphus marginatus)
• barred halfbeak (Hemiramphus far)
• Bermuda halfbeak (Hemiramphus bermudensis)
• bigwing halfbeak (Oxyporhamphus micropterus)
• black-barred halfbeak (Hemiramphus far)
• Buffon's halfbeak (Zenarchopterus buffonis)
• California halfbeak (Hyporhamphus rosae)
• Cape halfbeak (Hyporhamphus capensis)
• Central American halfbeak (Hyporhamphus roberti hildebrandi)
• choelo halfbeak (Hyporhamphus gilli)
• common halfbeak (Hyporhamphus unifasciatus)
• common halfbeak (Hyporhamphus limbatus)
• common halfbeak (Hyporhamphus picarti)
• common halfbeak (Hyporhamphus naos)
• common halfbeak (Hyporhamphus collettei)
• Congaturi halfbeak (Hyporhamphus limbatus)
• coral reef halfbeak (Hyporhamphus affinis)
• Dussumier's halfbeak (Hyporhamphus dussumieri)
• Japanese halfbeak

• viviparous halfbeak (Zenarchopterus gilli)
• wrestling halfbeak (Dermogenys pusilla)
• yellowtip halfbeak (Hemiramphus marginatus)
• yellowtip halfbeak (Hemiramphus lutkei)
• yellowtip halfbeak (Hemiramphus archipelagicus)

• “halfbeak”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “balahoo”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• halfbeak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hemiramphidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Hemiramphidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons