half·beak

(hăf′bēk′, häf′-)

Any of various slender, chiefly marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae of warm waters, having a blue or green and silvery body and an elongated lower jaw that often has a bright red or orange tip.

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halfbeak

(ˈhɑːfˌbiːk)

(Animals) any marine and freshwater teleost fish of the tropical and subtropical family Hemiramphidae, having an elongated body with a short upper jaw and a long protruding lower jaw

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Noun

halfbeak - tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw

teleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

family Hemiramphidae, Hemiramphidae - halfbeaks; marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide

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Phylum Chordata Class Actinopterygii Order Beloniformes Family Hemiramphidae Hyporhamphus rosae (Jordan and Gilbert, 1880), California halfbeak (Figs.

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Morphological and genetic identification of Japanese halfbeak (Hyporhamphus sajori) eggs.

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Florida's halfbeak, Hemiramphus spp., bait fishery.

Gonad development and reproduction of the ballyhoo half beak, Hemiramphus brasiliensis from the coastal waters of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil/Desenvolvimento das gonadas e reproducao da agulha-preta, Hemiramphus brasiliensis das aguas costeiras do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil

The only modern animals that have this sort of structure are skimmer birds and a kind of fish known as a halfbeak, she says.

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In addition, small inshore fish such as the ballyhoo halfbeak, H.

Temporal dynamics of reproduction in Hemiramphus brasiliensis (osteichthyes: hemiramphidae)

Model [alpha] [theta] a BGHN 0.0456 (0.0051) 540.40 (108.19) 223.66 (0.4313) GHN 0.7074 (0.0879) 533.45 (88.6917) 1(-) [lambda] [gamma] Weibull 361.76 (52.4678) 1.0239 (0.1062) Model b AIC CAIC BIC BGHN 112.38 (0.1560) 594.6 595.5 602.3 GHN 1(-) 602.8 603.1 606.7 Weibull 705.7 706.0 709.6 TABLE 4: MLEs of the model parameters for the USS Halfbeak diesel engine data, the corresponding SEs (given in parentheses), and the AIC, CAIC, and BIC statistics.

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Hyporhamphus collettei Sanford, 2010, Collette's Halfbeak. The Bermuda population of Hyporham-phus has been considered to be conspecific with Hyporhamphus unifasciatus (Ranzani 1842) but is characterized by a more slender body, fewer pectoral fin rays (usually 10), dorsal fin rays (usually 14 or 15), and second arch gill rakers (usually 2123).

Fishes of Bermuda

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Associates in Yonkers since (1963.) He served from 1958-1962 in the US Navy aboard the USS Halfbeak, a pre-nuclear submarine.

Francis P. (Pat) Tobin

Navy from 1954 through 1958, serving on the USS Halfbeak. He was a retired Teamster, a long term employee of First National.

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The relationships and taxonomic position of the halfbeak, killifishes, silversides, and their relatives.

Descriptive anatomy of Iso rhothophilus (Ogilby), with a phylogenetic analysis of Iso and a redefinition of Isonidae (Atheriniformes)