Flying halfbeak (Euleptorhamphus velox)

Species facts

Scientific name

Euleptorhamphus velox

Family

Hemiramphidae (Halfbeaks)

Order

Beloniformes (Needle fishes)

Class

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)

Maximum length

61.0

Common length

35.0

Environment

Marine; pelagic-oceanic

Climate

Tropical

Distribution

Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Gulf of Guinea and Nigeria. Western Atlantic: Rhode Island, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to the Antilles and Brazil; including the Caribbean Sea. Record from Namibia may belong to Indo-Pacific species Euleptorhamphus viridis.

Conservation status (IUCN)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Uses

Fisheries: commercial

Resilience

Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)