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GBIF·2368936speciesAnimalia3 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderBeloniformes
  4. ›familyHemiramphidae
  5. ›genusRhynchorhamphus
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Rhynchorhamphus arabicus

Rhynchorhamphus arabicus Parin & Shcherbachev, 1972

Also calledMeia-agulha-árabe (por) · polozobánka arabská (ces)

First described in: Parin, N. V.; Shcherbachev, Yu. N. (1972). A new halfbeak species (Rhynchorhamphus arabicus Parin et Shcherbachev) (Beloniformes, Hemiramphidae) from southern Yemeni waters. <em>Voprosy Ikhtiologii.</em> 12 (3): 569-571. [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology 12 (3):523-526.].

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2368936.